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Orlando shooting: Facebook activates safety check for users

Mark Zuckerberg has employed this feature on previous occasions as well, including the Paris attacks in November 2015

Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Photo: AP/PTI
Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Photo: AP/PTI
ANI Orlando
Last Updated : Jun 13 2016 | 4:15 PM IST

Following the deadliest mass shooting in Orlando, which is referred as the worst terror attack in the United States since 9/11, social networking giant Facebook has switched on its safety check feature for users in the country.

The feature allows one to notify friends whether they are in the affected area and mark self and others as safe, the Verge reports.

At least 50 people, including the gunman, were killed and 53 more injured on Sunday after a mass shooting occurred at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

The attack has been labeled as an act of domestic terrorism as well as Islamic terrorism due to the shooter pledging allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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First Published: Jun 13 2016 | 10:50 AM IST

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