ITV News International Affairs Editor Rageh Omaar reports

Mass shooter Omar Mateen’s father Seddique Mateen has told ITV News his son wasn't radical.

Omar Mateen opened fire on the dance floor inside Pulse nightclub, Orlando, at around 2am.

He killed 49 clubbers and wounded 53 others.

Seddique, from Afghanistan, told ITV News: "He wasn't radical. It's not religion.

"He wasn't growing a beard. He wasn't getting disrespect or neglecting his wife and his kid. I didn't see none of those."

He added: "I was not aware... If I knew I would have called law enforcement myself."

This is a free country, everyone has a choice to live in the way he or she wants to. Nobody has the right to do anything against nobody and I take the side with the people that got killed. He had no right to do anything. Seddique

Police searched Seddique's property in Port St Lucie, Florida, today.

The four-bedroom home is located on the same street where his son lived.

Seddique will be left to bring up his three-year-old grandson.