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Orlando shooting: Video shows people hiding in Pulse nightclub bathroom during shooting

WATCH ABOVE: New video of Orlando shooting shows victims hiding from shooter – Jun 17, 2016

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Terrifying new video has emerged from inside the Pulse nightclub that shows people hiding as Omar Mateen went on a deadly rampage in Orlando, Fla., last Sunday morning.

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The dark and blurry footage, which was captured by survivor Miguel Leiva, shows several young men and women crammed inside a bathroom stall.

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“We just tried to keep everyone as calm as possible and keep them quiet so he wouldn’t come back in there and shoot at us,” Leiva told reporters.

Leiva suffered two gunshot wounds in the nightclub massacre and was dragged to safety by an officer after a SWAT team moved in.

“I thought I was going to die and I thought someone has to know what really happened,” she said.

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Earlier this week, survivors of the shooting recounted how they made desperate attempts to hide from the shooter as he stalked through the nightclub ultimately killing 49 people and seriously wounding dozens more.

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Appearing on a hospital bed at Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC), Angel Santiago described being huddled inside a bathroom with several others trying to hide from the gunman.

“I just kept hearing gunfire over and over and over again. It just kept getting louder, closer. And I could actually start to smell gun powder,” Santiago said. She  was shot twice.

“That’s when the bullets started going through the stall wall towards us.”

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Meanwhile, more than $5.2 million has been raised online for the victims by Equality Florida, a gay rights group.

The money will be distributed through the National Compassion Fund, a unit of the non-profit National Center for Victims of Crime.

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