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Obama calls Orlando shooting an “act of terror, act of hate”

Published: 13 Jun 2016 - 12:00 am | Last Updated: 07 Nov 2021 - 01:54 pm
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Sunday described the worst mass shooting in U.S. history as “an act of terror” and “an act of hate”, saying the massacre of 50 people at a packed gay nightclub was an attack on all Americans.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner, Sarah N. Lynch, Jason Lange, Ginger Gibson and David Morgan; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

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