President Barack Obama embarked on a solemn visit to Orlando Thursday, where he will console families ripped apart by a massacre that has fueled America's culture wars and a fresh push for gun controls.

Air Force One touched down in Florida shortly before 1:00 pm (1700 GMT). In Orlando on Sunday, 49 people were killed and 53 others wounded in a gun attack at a gay club -- the worst mass shooting in US history.

Source: AFP