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A gunman opened fire in a crowded Orlando nightclub

Contributors: Johana Bhuiyan, Dawn Chmielewski, and Arik Hesseldahl

Fifty people are dead and 53 wounded in what is being called the worst mass shooting in American history.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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