Police in Orlando say they forced their way into the Pulse nightclub fearing Omar Mateen was about to kill many more people.
Mateen spoke with police in several phone calls and said he had a bomb.
The Islamic State sympathiser killed 49 people at the gay club in Florida in the worst mass shooting in recent US history.
He bought at least two guns in the days before the attack, despite having been interviewed twice in the past by the FBI over possible terrorism links.
US correspondent Simon Marks says two things are now clear about Omar Mateen's potential links to I.S.
IN: "One that…
OUT: …sympathies."
DUR: 41 seconds
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/0613orlando-marks1.mp3
ALT:
US correspondent Simon Marks says police felt they had to go into the club to avoid further bloodshed.
IN: "There was…
OUT: …local hospitals."
DUR: 41 seconds
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/0613orlando-marks2.mp3
Mateen spoke with police in several phone calls and said he had a bomb.
The Islamic State sympathiser killed 49 people at the gay club in Florida in the worst mass shooting in recent US history.
He bought at least two guns in the days before the attack, despite having been interviewed twice in the past by the FBI over possible terrorism links.
US correspondent Simon Marks says two things are now clear about Omar Mateen's potential links to I.S.
IN: "One that…
OUT: …sympathies."
DUR: 41 seconds
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/0613orlando-marks1.mp3
ALT:
US correspondent Simon Marks says police felt they had to go into the club to avoid further bloodshed.
IN: "There was…
OUT: …local hospitals."
DUR: 41 seconds
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/0613orlando-marks2.mp3