More than half of the 49 victims shot in Orlando’s Pulse night club were of Puerto Rican descent, Rolando Padua, Deputy Secretary of State for the Puerto Rican government, stated Monday.

"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. He also added that the Puerto Rican authorities are awaiting an official list of the victims, RIA Novosti reports.

Fifty people were killed and 53 injured due to the largest shooting in the history of the US, which occurred on Saturday night at a gay club in Orlando. The suspect Omar Matin, according to FBI, called the emergency number and told that he was a supporter of the IP. The US President Barack Obama called the incident a terrorist attack.