In this June file photo, law enforcement officials work at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Photo / AP
The wife of Orlando massacre gunman Omar Mateen has broken her silence, telling the New York Times "I was unaware".
Noor Salman told the newspaper that the massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Florida in June had occurred at a better time for the couple.
Mateen had just been
accepted into a police training programme. "He had given her permission to visit her family in California and handed her spending money for the trip. And he had stopped hitting her," the New York Times reports.
Mateen, who killed 49 people in the rampage, told his wife that he would not be home for dinner on June 11, saying he had to see a friend. He kissed her and hugged their 3-year-old son as he left.
Salman, whose parents immigrated to the United States from the West Bank in 1985, denied any involvement or foreknowledge of the attack in her first interview.
