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Sunday, June 12, 2016
A man enters the trendy gay club in the city of Orlando and shoots wildly. It takes 30 hostages and delivers a skirmish with the police. Around 20 people were killed, dozens injured. What drove the aggressor, is puzzling.
tragedy in a gay club in Florida: With an unclear motive man shot about 20 people. 42 more victims were taken after the massacre in the city of Orlando in a hospital, such as the local police chief John Mina told. The gunman was killed about three hours after the beginning of the tragedy in a firefight with police.
He had, according to the police previously taken dozens hostage. A representative of the US-Bundeskriminalamt FBI said the crime was being investigated as a possible “act of terrorism”. We must also at any links to Islamic terrorism, nothing is excluded: “We examine all aspects.”
Special forces free hostages
According to the police the perpetrator had around 2.00 pm with a assault rifle similar weapon in the club “Pulse” started shooting in the heart of the city. Initially, a single officer had come with him a firefight, then had two more officials added. One of them was injured. The gunman then took hostages.
The police have decided after about three hours to a violent liberation. According to Mina, the police gave access by means of an explosive device. The perpetrator was near an entrance door and was killed in a firefight. “At least 30 hostages were rescued by the action,” Mina. Said
As the police chief also announced that the perpetrator was wearing a “suspicious device” on the body, which was being investigated. About the protection of the police chief said only that he did not come from Orlando. Apparently, he had been “very well organized and prepared.”
There was to Minas words initially no evidence that the shooter acted out of hatred towards homosexuals, but of course will also determined in this direction. The club was well attended, according to Mina at night. He said more than 300 people. Media reports there was a “Latin Night” on the program, one night with Latin music.
“Leave pulses and runs.”
According to witnesses, the shooting occurred shortly before closing time at 2:00 am , many people had still been dancing. The club itself called on Facebook to flee to: “Leave pulses and runs.” Eyewitnesses reported of dozens shots in rapid succession – at least 40 it were, Christopher Hansen told the CNN. “At first I thought it was music. Then people threw themselves on the ground, and I also.”
Many fled from the building. The TV showed victims who were brought by clubbers from the building and placed on the loading platforms of light trucks. Some had blood on their clothes. Before several hospitals were waiting friends and relatives of the victims. One mother said, weeping: “My son is here I do not know how he is doing..”
The site of the club had been spaciously protected immediately after the shooting. Even bomb sniffing dogs were used on the premises. Mayor Buddy Dyer spoke of a “very terrible” crime. “We have to stay strong,” he called the inhabitants of the city
In Orlando had another murder shocked many people only on Friday night. A man had shot the popular young singer Christina Grimmie after a concert. Sheriff Mina but ruled out any connection between the two crimes.
Persistently high gunpoint
The incident occurred no two days after was shot in Orlando singer Christina Grimmie after a concert , According to police, a 27-year-old killed the 22-year-old musician on Friday night at an autograph session before taking his own life. His motives were unclear. Grimmie was made famous by the US talent show “The Voice”.
More aboutIn the US, there are almost daily shootings. Since the beginning according to the website Gunviolencearchive.org more than 5800 people have been killed by firearms, were counted with firearms while more than 23,000 incidents. Despite the high number of victims, the powerful gun lobby has so far prevented a target of US President Barack Obama tightening the weapons law.
Source: n-tv.de
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