{"id":6698,"date":"2016-06-12T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T13:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2016-06-12T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T13:22:54","slug":"shooter-kills-around-20-in-gay-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/shooter-kills-around-20-in-gay-nightclub\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooter kills around 20 in gay nightclub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6699\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USA.jpg\" alt=\"USA\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/>An estimated 20 people were killed at a gay nightclub after a heavily armed gunman seized hostages early Sunday, prompting a police SWAT team to storm the venue, officials said.<br \/>\n\u201cUnfortunately there are people who died from gunshot wounds, maybe around 20, inside the night club,\u201d FBI special agent Ron Harper told a media briefing.<br \/>\nHe said around 42 injured were taken to three area hospitals.<br \/>\n\u201cThis did turn into a hostage situation,\u201d Orlando police chief John Mina said. \u201cAt approximately 0500 hours (0900 GMT) this morning, the decision was made to rescue hostages that were in there.\u201d<br \/>\nIt was unclear whether all the victims were killed by the gunman or if some died in the ensuing shootout with police.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/shooter-kills-around-20-in-gay-nightclub\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 20 people were killed at a gay nightclub after a heavily armed gunman seized hostages early Sunday, prompting a police SWAT team to storm the venue, officials said. \u201cUnfortunately there are people who died from gunshot wounds, maybe around 20, inside the night club,\u201d FBI special agent Ron Harper told a media briefing. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}