Owners: Bogus Instagram Report Said Pulse Was Reopening

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ORLANDO (CBSMiami/AP) — The scene of one of America's worst mass shootings will not reopen as a memorial to the 49 people who died there, a spokewoman for Pulse nightclub in Orlando said Monday.

Sara Brady of the OnePulseFoundation said in a statement Monday that a bogus Instagram posting from the day before that had announced the memorial has been taken down.

The foundation was set up to help raise funds for the victims of the June 12 attack. Some 49 people were killed and 53 injured.

Gunman Omar Mateen was killed in a shooting with police at the nightclub.

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