Orlando in shock after mass shooting at nightclub

An injured person is escorted out of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting rampage, Sunday morning June 12, 2016, in Orlando. (AP)

Updated on: Jun 13, 2016 1:34 PM IST

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An injured person is escorted out of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting rampage, Sunday morning June 12, 2016, in Orlando. (AP)

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An injured man is escorted out of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting rampage, Sunday morning June 12, 2016, in Orlando. (AP)

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An injured man is escorted out of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting rampage, Sunday morning June 12, 2016, in Orlando. (AP)

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Family members wait for word from police after arriving down the street from a shooting involving multiple fatalities at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando. (AP)

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Police cars and fire trucks are seen outside the Pulse night club where police said a gunman left multiple people dead and injured in Orlando, Florida, June 12, 2016. (REUTERS)

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Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando on Sunday. (AP)

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Jermaine Towns, left, and Brandon Shuford wait down the street from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, on Sunday. (AP)

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29-year-old Omar Mateen, a Muslim American of Afghan descent, was identified as the shooter in the deadliest mass shooting on US soil. He opened fire at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, killing 50 people and wounding 53 more before he was killed in a shootout with SWAT team members. (Orlando police)

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Orlando police officers seen outside of Pulse nightclub after a fatal shooting and hostage situation on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. (AFP)

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Police cars and emergency vehicles surround the Pulse Orlando nightclub, the scene of a fatal shooting, in Orlando, on Sunday. (AP)

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Angel Mendez, standing outside the Orlando Regional Medical Center, holds up a cell phone photo trying to get information about his brother Jean C. Mendez that was at the Pulse Nightclub where a shooting involving multiple fatalities occurred. (AP)

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Volunteers Lesie Jampolsky and Dee "Mamma Dee" Richer, console each other at the LGBTQ Community Center after the late night shooting at Pulse, an Orlando night club,on Sunday. (AP)

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Hundreds of volunteers line up to donate blood at OneBlood Center after the late night shooting at Pulse, an Orlando night club, on Sunday, June 12, 2016 in Orlando. (AP)

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Concerned friends and family of victims at Pulse nightclub, where multiple fatalities were reported, wait outside of the Orlando Police Department, Sunday. (AP)

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Ray Rivera, a DJ at Pulse Orlando nightclub, is consoled by a friend, outside of the Orlando Police Department after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at the nightclub, Sunday. (AP)

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Concerned friends and family of victims at the Pulse nightclub, where multiple fatalities were reported after a shooting, wait outside of the Orlando Police Department, Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP)

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Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse nightclub. (REUTERS)

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Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse night club. (REUTERS)

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People wait outside the emergency entrance of the Orlando Regional Medical Center hospital after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando. (AP)

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Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse nightclub. (REUTERS)

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Demetrice Naulings sobs outside the Orlando Police Headquarters where police are interviewing witnesses in the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse nightclub. (REUTERS)

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Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse nightclub. (REUTERS)

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Emergency personnel wait with stretchers at the emergency entrance to Orlando Regional Medical Center hospital for the arrival of patients from the scene of a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub. (AP)

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An Orange County Sheriff's Department SWAT member arrives to the scene of a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, on Sunday. (AP)