Orlando club shooting: ‘This was an act of terror, an act of hate’

50 dead, 53 injured in nightclub massacre as death toll set to rise.

A man armed with an assault rifle killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida early yesterday in the worst mass shooting in US history, which President Barack Obama described as an act of terror and hate.

Police killed the shooter, who was identified as Omar Mateen, 29, a Florida resident and US citizen who was the son of immigrants from Afghanistan.