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2016 US ELECTION

Obama to console grieving families in Orlando

– ‘Too fresh’ –

A new family assistance center opened in Orlando Wednesday in a part of the stadium once known as the Citrus Bowl.

Sarita Figueroa, the director of readjustment counseling services for the Department of Veterans Affairs’s Southeast District, explained that her personnel were pitching in to help those in need of trauma and grief counseling.

“This is for the community,” Figueroa told AFP, noting that counselors had come from across the country.

For relatives of the dead, the aftermath is “very difficult. It’s too fresh,” she said.

“Some are still getting belongings from that night that were on the floor. Glasses, watches, a wallet… You receive the news that you lost someone, and then you receive the note that you need to go and pick up things. That’s another process.”

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