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SCHOOL SLAYINGS

AROUND THE WORLD

The shooting at a university in Illinois was the latest in a series of deadly attacks across the world. A list of such attacks in recent years...

MARCH 1996 | Britain (18) Sixteen children and their teacher are shot dead by a gunman in Dunblane, Scotland. The assailant then kills himself APRIL 1996 | China (7) A man stabs to death seven children in two schools in Meitian, China’s Hunan province MARCH 1997 | Yemen (6) A Yemeni veteran of Afghan war opens fire in two schools in Sanaa. He kills six, including four students MARCH 1998 | United States (5) Two boys aged 13 and 11 shoot dead four girls and a teacher at a school in Arkansas APRIL 1999 | United States (15) Two armed youths kill 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado. They then commit suicide JUNE 2001 | Japan (8) A deranged man stabs to death eight small children at an elementary school in Tokyo APRIL 2002 | Germany (16) A student angry at being expelled from school guns down 16 people on the campus, including 12 teachers and two students NOV 2004 | China (8) A 21-year-old man enters a school in Hunan and opens fire in a dorm, killing eight MARCH 2005 | United States (10) A 16-year-old boy kills two people at his home in Minnesota, then goes to his school where he kills five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard and then himself OCT 2006 | United States (6) A man enters a school of the Amish community in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania and shoots 11 girls, killing five, before turning the weapon on himself APRIL 2007 | United States (33) A heavily armed South Korean student kills a total of 32 people on his campus at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He then shoots himself NOV 2007 | Finland (9) An 18-year-old pupil opens fire in a school in Finland killing five boys, two girls and the headmistress before comiting suicide FEB 8, 2008 | United States (3) A female student shoots two other women before turning the gun on herself at a Baton Rouge college in Louisiana FEB 14, 2008 | United States (6) Seven people including the shooter are left dead after a gun rampage at Northern Illinois University near Chicago
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