PARIS: US President Barack Obama, Pope Francis and Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday led global condemnation after a gunman went on the rampage at a gay nightclub in Florida, leaving at least 50 people dead.

The Pontiff condemned the killings as “homicidal folly and senseless hatred” while Obama described them as “an act of terror and an act of hate.”

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