Update 8.53pm - Adds Mexican casualties

More than half of the fatal victims from the shooting in Orlando were of Puerto Rican descent, Rolando Padua, deputy secretary of state for the Puerto Rican government, told Reuters today.

"What they have informed us so far is that 90 percent of the victims are Latinos and that more than half of the dead victims are of Puerto Rican origin," Padua said in a brief telephone interview. "We are awaiting an official list of the victims this afternoon."

Later today, the Mexican government released a statement. It said that three of the victims were Mexican citizens, with one further victim likely to have been Mexican. 

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