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Calculated Shard: 99 (from laksa154)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa099.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism","crawl_time":1772788174,"first_indexed_time":1467998338,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,theguardian!www,\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism s443","src_root_hash":"4161074618625082499","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Orlando nightclub attack is deadliest US mass shooting in modern history | Orlando terror attack | The Guardian","meta_descriptions":["City’s mayor says 50 killed and 53 injured, as FBI study shows no previous attack had so many casualties"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"The\nattack on an Orlando nightclub\nis, as Barack Obama said on Sunday, the deadliest American public mass shooting, with at least 50 people killed and 53 people injured.\nWith many victims in the hospital reported to be in critical condition, the death toll is likely to rise.\nCalling the attack “brutal murder”,\nthe president said\n: “We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. This is an especially heartbreaking day for all of our friends and fellow Americans who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.”\nHe added: “We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate.”\nOfficials described the shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism”, and said there were “suggestions” that the gunman “may have had leanings” toward a violent jihadist ideology.\nThe highest-casualty so-called “active shooter” incident before Sunday was the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, which had a total of 70 casualties – 12 people killed and 58 injured – according to a 2014 FBI study of shooting incidents.\nThe San Bernardino attack last year, a terror attack in which a married couple opened fire on a holiday party staged for the husband’s coworkers, left 14 people killed and 21 wounded.\nThe April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, carried out with bombs made with pressure cookers, left three people dead and more than 260 injured.\nIn an international context, the shooting claimed fewer victims than the Paris terror attacks last November, which left 130 people dead, including\n89 killed\nin a shooting massacre during a concert at the Bataclan theater.\nIn July 2011, a mass shooting in Norway also claimed more than 130 total casualties, many of them teenagers. In that shooting, which targeted an island summer camp, 69 people were killed and 66 wounded. The shooter, Anders Breivik, said he intended to\noppose an “invasion of Muslims”\ninto Europe and to attack supporters of multiculturalism. The shootings followed a bomb attack on Norway’s capital that left eight dead.\nBut the Orlando shooting has left more people dead than some of the other highest-profile mass shootings around the world. The 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, left\n35 people shot to death\nand 23 wounded. The\nDunblane school shooting in Scotland in 1996\nleft 16 young children and their teacher dead.\nFBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents.\nPhotograph: FBI website\nAmerican mass shootings with no links to terrorism have seen a high number of people killed and injured, but none previously with such casualty figures, according to the 2014 FBI study.\nA school shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007 left 32 people dead. A school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, left 26 people dead, 20 of them first-grade students.\nA separate Mother Jones analysis of\npublic mass shootings since 1982\nalso includes no incidents with more than 100 total casualties, and no incident with more than 33 people shot to death.\nSome prominent mass shootings before 1982 left fewer Americans dead than Sunday’s nightclub attack. In August 1966, a former marine armed with a number of guns climbed to the top of of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin and fired down on students below for more than an hour and a half, leaving\n16 people dead and 31 people wounded\n.\nIn 1949, a disturbed young man walked through his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood with a pistol and shot local residents. Thirteen people were killed in this “Walk of Death”, one of the country’s\nearliest high-profile mass shootings\n.\nThe 2014 FBI study analyzed “active shooter” incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013. These were public shootings that involved “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area”, in which law enforcement and civilians had a chance to intervene and affect the outcome of the incidents. Gang or drug-related shootings were not included in the count.\nThere were 160 such incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, the FBI found, with 486 people killed and 557 people wounded. Incidents happened in 40 of the 50 states. The majority of the incidents ended before police arrived, and 40% of the shooters committed suicide, many at the scene of the crime. Almost all of the shooters worked alone.\nThe frequency of such incidents has appeared to increase in recent years, the FBI found, from an average of 6.4 incidents each year in the first seven years of the study to an average of 16.4 incidents a year during the last seven.","attrs_markdown":"![](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=us-news)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism#maincontent)[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism#navigation)\n\nClose dialogue\n\n1\/1\n\nNext image\n\nPrevious image\n\nToggle caption\n\n[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism#navigation)\n\n## Support the Guardian\nFund independent journalism with £12 per month\n\n[Support us](https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/uk\/contribute?REFPVID=mmeob2j05gqckuc2m8hx&INTCMP=header_support_2025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK_CONTROL&acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22header_support_2025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK_CONTROL%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_HEADER%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22header_support_2025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK_CONTROL%22%2C%22abTests%22%3A%5B%7B%22name%22%3A%222025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK%22%2C%22variant%22%3A%22CONTROL%22%7D%5D%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22mmeob2j05gqckuc2m8hx%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2016%2Fjun%2F12%2Forlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism%22%2C%22isRemote%22%3Atrue%7D)\n\n[Support us](https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/uk\/contribute?REFPVID=mmeob2j05gqckuc2m8hx&INTCMP=header_support_2025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK_CONTROL&acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22header_support_2025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK_CONTROL%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_HEADER%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22header_support_2025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK_CONTROL%22%2C%22abTests%22%3A%5B%7B%22name%22%3A%222025-01-01_NEW_YEAR_HEADER__UK%22%2C%22variant%22%3A%22CONTROL%22%7D%5D%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22mmeob2j05gqckuc2m8hx%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2016%2Fjun%2F12%2Forlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism%22%2C%22isRemote%22%3Atrue%7D)\n\n[Print subscriptions](https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/subscribe?REFPVID=mmeob2j05gqckuc2m8hx&INTCMP=undefined&acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22PrintSubscriptionsHeaderLink%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_HEADER%22%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22mmeob2j05gqckuc2m8hx%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2016%2Fjun%2F12%2Forlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism%22%7D)\n\n[Search jobs](https:\/\/jobs.theguardian.com\/)\n\n[Sign in](https:\/\/profile.theguardian.com\/signin?INTCMP=DOTCOM_NEWHEADER_SIGNIN&ABCMP=ab-sign-in&componentEventParams=componentType%3Didentityauthentication%26componentId%3Dguardian_signin_header)\n\nUK\n\n- [UK edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/uk)\n- [US edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/us)\n- [Australia edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/au)\n- [Europe edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/eur)\n- [International edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/int)\n\n[The Guardian - 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Photograph: Steve Nesius\/Reuters\n\n[View image in fullscreen](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-terrorism#img-1)\n\nFriends and family members embrace outside the Orlando police headquarters. Photograph: Steve Nesius\/Reuters\n\n[Orlando terror attack](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/orlando-terror-attack)\n\nThis article is more than **9 years old**\n\n# Orlando nightclub attack is deadliest US mass shooting in modern history\nThis article is more than 9 years old\n\n- City’s mayor says 50 killed and 53 injured\n- FBI study shows no previous attack had so many casualties\n- [Florida nightclub shooting – live updates](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2016\/jun\/12\/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates)\n- [‘Everyone get out and keep running’: how the Orlando attack unfolded](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-nightclub-shooting-how-attack-unfolded)\n\n[Lois Beckett](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/lois-beckett)\n\nSun 12 Jun 2016 19.14 BST\n\nFirst published on Sun 12 Jun 2016 15.53 BST\n\nShare\n\n[Prefer the Guardian on Google](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=theguardian.com)\n\nThe [attack on an Orlando nightclub](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-shooting-nightclub-pulse-gunman) is, as Barack Obama said on Sunday, the deadliest American public mass shooting, with at least 50 people killed and 53 people injured.\n\n[Orlando shooting – as it happened Read more](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2016\/jun\/12\/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates)\n\nWith many victims in the hospital reported to be in critical condition, the death toll is likely to rise.\n\nCalling the attack “brutal murder”, [the president said](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2016\/jun\/12\/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates?page=with:block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77#block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77): “We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. This is an especially heartbreaking day for all of our friends and fellow Americans who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.”\n\nHe added: “We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate.”\n\nOfficials described the shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism”, and said there were “suggestions” that the gunman “may have had leanings” toward a violent jihadist ideology.\n\nThe highest-casualty so-called “active shooter” incident before Sunday was the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, which had a total of 70 casualties – 12 people killed and 58 injured – according to a 2014 FBI study of shooting incidents.\n\nThe San Bernardino attack last year, a terror attack in which a married couple opened fire on a holiday party staged for the husband’s coworkers, left 14 people killed and 21 wounded.\n\nThe April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, carried out with bombs made with pressure cookers, left three people dead and more than 260 injured.\n\nIn an international context, the shooting claimed fewer victims than the Paris terror attacks last November, which left 130 people dead, including [89 killed](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/20\/bataclan-witnesses-recount-horror-paris-attacks) in a shooting massacre during a concert at the Bataclan theater.\n\nIn July 2011, a mass shooting in Norway also claimed more than 130 total casualties, many of them teenagers. In that shooting, which targeted an island summer camp, 69 people were killed and 66 wounded. The shooter, Anders Breivik, said he intended to [oppose an “invasion of Muslims”](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/aug\/24\/anders-behring-breivik-verdict-norway-utoya) into Europe and to attack supporters of multiculturalism. The shootings followed a bomb attack on Norway’s capital that left eight dead.\n\nBut the Orlando shooting has left more people dead than some of the other highest-profile mass shootings around the world. The 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, left [35 people shot to death](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/mar\/15\/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthur) and 23 wounded. The [Dunblane school shooting in Scotland in 1996](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/mar\/13\/dunblane-marks-20th-anniversary-of-massacre) left 16 young children and their teacher dead.\n\n![FBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c3acd700c58d5f4ce6fb5f453e8c9ec672e79864\/0_6_486_291\/master\/486.png?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)\n\nFBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents. Photograph: FBI website\n\nAmerican mass shootings with no links to terrorism have seen a high number of people killed and injured, but none previously with such casualty figures, according to the 2014 FBI study.\n\nA school shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007 left 32 people dead. A school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, left 26 people dead, 20 of them first-grade students.\n\nA separate Mother Jones analysis of [public mass shootings since 1982](http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/12\/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data) also includes no incidents with more than 100 total casualties, and no incident with more than 33 people shot to death.\n\nSome prominent mass shootings before 1982 left fewer Americans dead than Sunday’s nightclub attack. In August 1966, a former marine armed with a number of guns climbed to the top of of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin and fired down on students below for more than an hour and a half, leaving [16 people dead and 31 people wounded](http:\/\/features.texasmonthly.com\/editorial\/the-reckoning\/).\n\nIn 1949, a disturbed young man walked through his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood with a pistol and shot local residents. Thirteen people were killed in this “Walk of Death”, one of the country’s [earliest high-profile mass shootings](http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927\/?no-ist).   \n  \n The 2014 FBI study analyzed “active shooter” incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013. These were public shootings that involved “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area”, in which law enforcement and civilians had a chance to intervene and affect the outcome of the incidents. Gang or drug-related shootings were not included in the count.\n\n[![Shooting at Pulse Nightclub, Orlando, Florida, USA - 12 Jun 2016\\<br\\>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ddp USA\/REX\/Shutterstock (5726183a) Port St. Lucie Police along with FBI officials investigate a residence related to the Orlando shooter in Port St. Lucie Shooting at Pulse Nightclub, Orlando, Florida, USA - 12 Jun 2016](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/166842280a880e32996b03b51c17b3c974b6dc56\/134_51_2723_1634\/2723.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2050a59caf0b43245554be4d755a0490)Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was known to FBI, agent says Read more](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/omar-mateen-orlando-nightclub-attack-shooter-named)\n\nThere were 160 such incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, the FBI found, with 486 people killed and 557 people wounded. Incidents happened in 40 of the 50 states. The majority of the incidents ended before police arrived, and 40% of the shooters committed suicide, many at the scene of the crime. 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All rights reserved.\n\n(dcr)","attrs_readable_markdown":"The [attack on an Orlando nightclub](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-shooting-nightclub-pulse-gunman) is, as Barack Obama said on Sunday, the deadliest American public mass shooting, with at least 50 people killed and 53 people injured.\n\nWith many victims in the hospital reported to be in critical condition, the death toll is likely to rise.\n\nCalling the attack “brutal murder”, [the president said](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2016\/jun\/12\/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates?page=with:block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77#block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77): “We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. This is an especially heartbreaking day for all of our friends and fellow Americans who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.”\n\nHe added: “We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate.”\n\nOfficials described the shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism”, and said there were “suggestions” that the gunman “may have had leanings” toward a violent jihadist ideology.\n\nThe highest-casualty so-called “active shooter” incident before Sunday was the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, which had a total of 70 casualties – 12 people killed and 58 injured – according to a 2014 FBI study of shooting incidents.\n\nThe San Bernardino attack last year, a terror attack in which a married couple opened fire on a holiday party staged for the husband’s coworkers, left 14 people killed and 21 wounded.\n\nThe April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, carried out with bombs made with pressure cookers, left three people dead and more than 260 injured.\n\nIn an international context, the shooting claimed fewer victims than the Paris terror attacks last November, which left 130 people dead, including [89 killed](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/20\/bataclan-witnesses-recount-horror-paris-attacks) in a shooting massacre during a concert at the Bataclan theater.\n\nIn July 2011, a mass shooting in Norway also claimed more than 130 total casualties, many of them teenagers. In that shooting, which targeted an island summer camp, 69 people were killed and 66 wounded. The shooter, Anders Breivik, said he intended to [oppose an “invasion of Muslims”](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/aug\/24\/anders-behring-breivik-verdict-norway-utoya) into Europe and to attack supporters of multiculturalism. The shootings followed a bomb attack on Norway’s capital that left eight dead.\n\nBut the Orlando shooting has left more people dead than some of the other highest-profile mass shootings around the world. The 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, left [35 people shot to death](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/mar\/15\/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthur) and 23 wounded. The [Dunblane school shooting in Scotland in 1996](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/mar\/13\/dunblane-marks-20th-anniversary-of-massacre) left 16 young children and their teacher dead.\n\n![FBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c3acd700c58d5f4ce6fb5f453e8c9ec672e79864\/0_6_486_291\/master\/486.png?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)\n\nFBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents. Photograph: FBI website\n\nAmerican mass shootings with no links to terrorism have seen a high number of people killed and injured, but none previously with such casualty figures, according to the 2014 FBI study.\n\nA school shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007 left 32 people dead. A school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, left 26 people dead, 20 of them first-grade students.\n\nA separate Mother Jones analysis of [public mass shootings since 1982](http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/12\/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data) also includes no incidents with more than 100 total casualties, and no incident with more than 33 people shot to death.\n\nSome prominent mass shootings before 1982 left fewer Americans dead than Sunday’s nightclub attack. In August 1966, a former marine armed with a number of guns climbed to the top of of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin and fired down on students below for more than an hour and a half, leaving [16 people dead and 31 people wounded](http:\/\/features.texasmonthly.com\/editorial\/the-reckoning\/).\n\nIn 1949, a disturbed young man walked through his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood with a pistol and shot local residents. Thirteen people were killed in this “Walk of Death”, one of the country’s [earliest high-profile mass shootings](http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927\/?no-ist).\n\nThe 2014 FBI study analyzed “active shooter” incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013. These were public shootings that involved “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area”, in which law enforcement and civilians had a chance to intervene and affect the outcome of the incidents. Gang or drug-related shootings were not included in the count.\n\nThere were 160 such incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, the FBI found, with 486 people killed and 557 people wounded. Incidents happened in 40 of the 50 states. The majority of the incidents ended before police arrived, and 40% of the shooters committed suicide, many at the scene of the crime. Almost all of the shooters worked alone.\n\nThe frequency of such incidents has appeared to increase in recent years, the FBI found, from an average of 6.4 incidents each year in the first seven years of the study to an average of 16.4 incidents a year during the last seven.","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	The attack on an Orlando nightclub is, as Barack Obama said on Sunday, the deadliest American public mass shooting, with at least 50 people killed and 53 people injured. With many victims in the hospital reported to be in critical condition, the death toll is likely to rise. Calling the attack “brutal murder”, the president said : “We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. This is an especially heartbreaking day for all of our friends and fellow Americans who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.” He added: “We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate.” Officials described the shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism”, and said there were “suggestions” that the gunman “may have had leanings” toward a violent jihadist ideology. The highest-casualty so-called “active shooter” incident before Sunday was the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, which had a total of 70 casualties – 12 people killed and 58 injured – according to a 2014 FBI study of shooting incidents. The San Bernardino attack last year, a terror attack in which a married couple opened fire on a holiday party staged for the husband’s coworkers, left 14 people killed and 21 wounded. The April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, carried out with bombs made with pressure cookers, left three people dead and more than 260 injured. In an international context, the shooting claimed fewer victims than the Paris terror attacks last November, which left 130 people dead, including 89 killed in a shooting massacre during a concert at the Bataclan theater. In July 2011, a mass shooting in Norway also claimed more than 130 total casualties, many of them teenagers. In that shooting, which targeted an island summer camp, 69 people were killed and 66 wounded. The shooter, Anders Breivik, said he intended to oppose an “invasion of Muslims” into Europe and to attack supporters of multiculturalism. The shootings followed a bomb attack on Norway’s capital that left eight dead. But the Orlando shooting has left more people dead than some of the other highest-profile mass shootings around the world. The 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, left 35 people shot to death and 23 wounded. The Dunblane school shooting in Scotland in 1996 left 16 young children and their teacher dead. FBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents. Photograph: FBI website American mass shootings with no links to terrorism have seen a high number of people killed and injured, but none previously with such casualty figures, according to the 2014 FBI study. A school shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007 left 32 people dead. A school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, left 26 people dead, 20 of them first-grade students. A separate Mother Jones analysis of public mass shootings since 1982 also includes no incidents with more than 100 total casualties, and no incident with more than 33 people shot to death. Some prominent mass shootings before 1982 left fewer Americans dead than Sunday’s nightclub attack. In August 1966, a former marine armed with a number of guns climbed to the top of of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin and fired down on students below for more than an hour and a half, leaving 16 people dead and 31 people wounded . In 1949, a disturbed young man walked through his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood with a pistol and shot local residents. Thirteen people were killed in this “Walk of Death”, one of the country’s earliest high-profile mass shootings . The 2014 FBI study analyzed “active shooter” incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013. These were public shootings that involved “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area”, in which law enforcement and civilians had a chance to intervene and affect the outcome of the incidents. Gang or drug-related shootings were not included in the count. There were 160 such incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, the FBI found, with 486 people killed and 557 people wounded. Incidents happened in 40 of the 50 states. The majority of the incidents ended before police arrived, and 40% of the shooters committed suicide, many at the scene of the crime. Almost all of the shooters worked alone. The frequency of such incidents has appeared to increase in recent years, the FBI found, from an average of 6.4 incidents each year in the first seven years of the study to an average of 16.4 incidents a year during the last seven.
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Photograph: Steve Nesius/Reuters [Orlando terror attack](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/orlando-terror-attack) This article is more than 9 years old # Orlando nightclub attack is deadliest US mass shooting in modern history This article is more than 9 years old - City’s mayor says 50 killed and 53 injured - FBI study shows no previous attack had so many casualties - [Florida nightclub shooting – live updates](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jun/12/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates) - [‘Everyone get out and keep running’: how the Orlando attack unfolded](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/orlando-nightclub-shooting-how-attack-unfolded) [Lois Beckett](https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lois-beckett) Sun 12 Jun 2016 19.14 BST First published on Sun 12 Jun 2016 15.53 BST Share [Prefer the Guardian on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=theguardian.com) The [attack on an Orlando nightclub](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/orlando-shooting-nightclub-pulse-gunman) is, as Barack Obama said on Sunday, the deadliest American public mass shooting, with at least 50 people killed and 53 people injured. [Orlando shooting – as it happened Read more](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jun/12/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates) With many victims in the hospital reported to be in critical condition, the death toll is likely to rise. Calling the attack “brutal murder”, [the president said](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jun/12/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates?page=with:block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77#block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77): “We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. This is an especially heartbreaking day for all of our friends and fellow Americans who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.” He added: “We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate.” Officials described the shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism”, and said there were “suggestions” that the gunman “may have had leanings” toward a violent jihadist ideology. The highest-casualty so-called “active shooter” incident before Sunday was the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, which had a total of 70 casualties – 12 people killed and 58 injured – according to a 2014 FBI study of shooting incidents. The San Bernardino attack last year, a terror attack in which a married couple opened fire on a holiday party staged for the husband’s coworkers, left 14 people killed and 21 wounded. The April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, carried out with bombs made with pressure cookers, left three people dead and more than 260 injured. In an international context, the shooting claimed fewer victims than the Paris terror attacks last November, which left 130 people dead, including [89 killed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/bataclan-witnesses-recount-horror-paris-attacks) in a shooting massacre during a concert at the Bataclan theater. In July 2011, a mass shooting in Norway also claimed more than 130 total casualties, many of them teenagers. In that shooting, which targeted an island summer camp, 69 people were killed and 66 wounded. The shooter, Anders Breivik, said he intended to [oppose an “invasion of Muslims”](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/24/anders-behring-breivik-verdict-norway-utoya) into Europe and to attack supporters of multiculturalism. The shootings followed a bomb attack on Norway’s capital that left eight dead. But the Orlando shooting has left more people dead than some of the other highest-profile mass shootings around the world. The 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, left [35 people shot to death](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthur) and 23 wounded. The [Dunblane school shooting in Scotland in 1996](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/13/dunblane-marks-20th-anniversary-of-massacre) left 16 young children and their teacher dead. ![FBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c3acd700c58d5f4ce6fb5f453e8c9ec672e79864/0_6_486_291/master/486.png?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) FBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents. Photograph: FBI website American mass shootings with no links to terrorism have seen a high number of people killed and injured, but none previously with such casualty figures, according to the 2014 FBI study. A school shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007 left 32 people dead. A school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, left 26 people dead, 20 of them first-grade students. A separate Mother Jones analysis of [public mass shootings since 1982](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data) also includes no incidents with more than 100 total casualties, and no incident with more than 33 people shot to death. Some prominent mass shootings before 1982 left fewer Americans dead than Sunday’s nightclub attack. In August 1966, a former marine armed with a number of guns climbed to the top of of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin and fired down on students below for more than an hour and a half, leaving [16 people dead and 31 people wounded](http://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-reckoning/). In 1949, a disturbed young man walked through his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood with a pistol and shot local residents. Thirteen people were killed in this “Walk of Death”, one of the country’s [earliest high-profile mass shootings](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/?no-ist). The 2014 FBI study analyzed “active shooter” incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013. These were public shootings that involved “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area”, in which law enforcement and civilians had a chance to intervene and affect the outcome of the incidents. Gang or drug-related shootings were not included in the count. [![Shooting at Pulse Nightclub, Orlando, Florida, USA - 12 Jun 2016\<br\>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ddp USA/REX/Shutterstock (5726183a) Port St. Lucie Police along with FBI officials investigate a residence related to the Orlando shooter in Port St. Lucie Shooting at Pulse Nightclub, Orlando, Florida, USA - 12 Jun 2016](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/166842280a880e32996b03b51c17b3c974b6dc56/134_51_2723_1634/2723.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2050a59caf0b43245554be4d755a0490)Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was known to FBI, agent says Read more](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/omar-mateen-orlando-nightclub-attack-shooter-named) There were 160 such incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, the FBI found, with 486 people killed and 557 people wounded. Incidents happened in 40 of the 50 states. The majority of the incidents ended before police arrived, and 40% of the shooters committed suicide, many at the scene of the crime. Almost all of the shooters worked alone. The frequency of such incidents has appeared to increase in recent years, the FBI found, from an average of 6.4 incidents each year in the first seven years of the study to an average of 16.4 incidents a year during the last seven. 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Readable Markdown	The [attack on an Orlando nightclub](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/orlando-shooting-nightclub-pulse-gunman) is, as Barack Obama said on Sunday, the deadliest American public mass shooting, with at least 50 people killed and 53 people injured. With many victims in the hospital reported to be in critical condition, the death toll is likely to rise. Calling the attack “brutal murder”, [the president said](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jun/12/florida-nightclub-shooting-terrorism-suspect-updates?page=with:block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77#block-575da30fe4b00f7e4b177d77): “We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. This is an especially heartbreaking day for all of our friends and fellow Americans who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.” He added: “We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate.” Officials described the shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism”, and said there were “suggestions” that the gunman “may have had leanings” toward a violent jihadist ideology. The highest-casualty so-called “active shooter” incident before Sunday was the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, which had a total of 70 casualties – 12 people killed and 58 injured – according to a 2014 FBI study of shooting incidents. The San Bernardino attack last year, a terror attack in which a married couple opened fire on a holiday party staged for the husband’s coworkers, left 14 people killed and 21 wounded. The April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, carried out with bombs made with pressure cookers, left three people dead and more than 260 injured. In an international context, the shooting claimed fewer victims than the Paris terror attacks last November, which left 130 people dead, including [89 killed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/bataclan-witnesses-recount-horror-paris-attacks) in a shooting massacre during a concert at the Bataclan theater. In July 2011, a mass shooting in Norway also claimed more than 130 total casualties, many of them teenagers. In that shooting, which targeted an island summer camp, 69 people were killed and 66 wounded. The shooter, Anders Breivik, said he intended to [oppose an “invasion of Muslims”](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/24/anders-behring-breivik-verdict-norway-utoya) into Europe and to attack supporters of multiculturalism. The shootings followed a bomb attack on Norway’s capital that left eight dead. But the Orlando shooting has left more people dead than some of the other highest-profile mass shootings around the world. The 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, left [35 people shot to death](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthur) and 23 wounded. The [Dunblane school shooting in Scotland in 1996](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/13/dunblane-marks-20th-anniversary-of-massacre) left 16 young children and their teacher dead. ![FBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c3acd700c58d5f4ce6fb5f453e8c9ec672e79864/0_6_486_291/master/486.png?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) FBI data shows an increase in active shooter incidents. Photograph: FBI website American mass shootings with no links to terrorism have seen a high number of people killed and injured, but none previously with such casualty figures, according to the 2014 FBI study. A school shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007 left 32 people dead. A school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, left 26 people dead, 20 of them first-grade students. A separate Mother Jones analysis of [public mass shootings since 1982](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data) also includes no incidents with more than 100 total casualties, and no incident with more than 33 people shot to death. Some prominent mass shootings before 1982 left fewer Americans dead than Sunday’s nightclub attack. In August 1966, a former marine armed with a number of guns climbed to the top of of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin and fired down on students below for more than an hour and a half, leaving [16 people dead and 31 people wounded](http://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-reckoning/). In 1949, a disturbed young man walked through his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood with a pistol and shot local residents. Thirteen people were killed in this “Walk of Death”, one of the country’s [earliest high-profile mass shootings](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/?no-ist). The 2014 FBI study analyzed “active shooter” incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013. These were public shootings that involved “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area”, in which law enforcement and civilians had a chance to intervene and affect the outcome of the incidents. Gang or drug-related shootings were not included in the count. There were 160 such incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, the FBI found, with 486 people killed and 557 people wounded. Incidents happened in 40 of the 50 states. The majority of the incidents ended before police arrived, and 40% of the shooters committed suicide, many at the scene of the crime. Almost all of the shooters worked alone. The frequency of such incidents has appeared to increase in recent years, the FBI found, from an average of 6.4 incidents each year in the first seven years of the study to an average of 16.4 incidents a year during the last seven.
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