Factbox-Mass Shootings in Europe Over the Many years

(Reuters) – After two mass shootings in Serbia this week, here’s a timeline of a few of the worst taking pictures incidents in Europe in latest a long time:

Could 1987 – BELGIUM – Michael Van Wijnendaele, who had injured his personal parents-in-law and ran amok within the farming group of Bogaarden, south of Brussels, shoots himself as police attempt to get him to give up after he killed six different individuals.

August 1987 – BRITAIN – Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old gun fanatic, rampages by means of the English city of Hungerford, killing 16 individuals and wounding 11 earlier than taking pictures himself.

July 1989 – FRANCE – A French farmer shoots and kills 14 individuals together with members of his household within the village of Luxiol, close to the Swiss border. He’s wounded and captured by police.

September 1995 – FRANCE – A 16-year-old youth runs amok with a rifle within the city of Cuers, killing 16 individuals after which himself after an argument along with his mother and father.

March 1996 – BRITAIN – Thomas Hamilton bursts right into a main faculty within the Scottish city of Dunblane and shoots useless 16 kids and their instructor earlier than killing himself.

April 2002 – GERMANY – Robert Steinhauser, 19, opens fireplace in Erfurt after saying he was not going to take a maths take a look at. He kills 12 lecturers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman on the Gutenberg Gymnasium, earlier than killing himself.

November 7, 2007 – FINLAND – Pekka-Eric Auvinen kills six fellow college students, the varsity nurse and the principal and himself with a handgun on the Jokela Excessive College close to Helsinki.

September 23, 2008 – FINLAND – Scholar Matti Saari opens fireplace in a vocational faculty in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing 9 different college students and one male employees member earlier than killing himself.

March 2009 – GERMANY – A 17-year-old gunman kills 9 college students and three lecturers at a faculty close to Stuttgart and one other particular person at a close-by clinic. He’s later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two extra passers-by are additionally killed, bringing the loss of life toll to 16, together with the gunman.

June 2010 – BRITAIN – Derrick Hen opens fireplace on individuals in cities throughout the agricultural county of Cumbria. Twelve persons are killed and 11 injured. Hen additionally killed himself.

August 2010 – SLOVAKIA – A gunman shoots useless six members of a Roma household and one other girl within the Slovak capital Bratislava earlier than killing himself. Fourteen extra persons are wounded.

April 2011 – NETHERLANDS – Tristan van der Vlis opens fireplace within the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six earlier than turning the gun on himself.

July 2011 – NORWAY – Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 individuals when he vegetation a automotive bomb that kills eight individuals at an Oslo authorities constructing, then shoots useless 69 extra, most of them youngsters, at an island summer time camp of the ruling Labour Social gathering’s youth wing.

November 2015 – FRANCE – Islamist attackers in Paris armed with weapons and bombs goal the Bataclan music corridor, six bars and eating places, and the perimeter of the Stade de France sports activities stadium simply exterior the French capital, killing 130 individuals – together with 90 concertgoers within the Bataclan – and injuring a whole lot.

July 2016 – GERMANY – An 18-year-old German-Iranian man, who’s obsessive about mass kilings, kills no less than 9 individuals in Munich.

March 2023 – GERMANY – A gunman in Hamburg shoots useless six individuals earlier than killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship corridor. Eight different individuals have been wounded, together with a seven-months pregnant girl, who misplaced her unborn daughter.

Could 2023 – SERBIA – In a single week, a 13-year-old boy weapons down eight fellow pupils and a safety guard in a Belgrade faculty. Two days later, a gunman kills eight individuals and wounds 14 others in a village close to the Serbian capital. Each suspects are arrested.

(Compiled by Edmund Blair; Modifying by Gareth Jones)

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