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Translated by: Flutura Gashi-Mehmeti
- June 10, 2025 17:51
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A gunman killed at least nine people at a high school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, marking the deadliest attack on a school in the country's modern history.
Below is a timeline of some of the worst shootings in Europe over the past four decades:
May 1987 - BELGIUM - Michael Van Wijnendaele kills seven people in Belgium, then shoots himself as police try to force him to surrender.
August 1987 - BRITAIN - Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old gun fanatic, goes on a rampage in the English town of Hungerford, killing 16 people and wounding 11 others before shooting himself.
July 1989 - FRANCE - A French farmer shoots and kills 14 people, including members of his own family, in the village of Luxiol, near the Swiss border. He is wounded and captured by police.
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September 1995 - FRANCE - A 16-year-old youth runs rampant with a rifle in the town of Cuers, killing 15 people and then himself after an argument with his parents.
March 1996 - BRITAIN - Thomas Hamilton forces his way into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shoots dead 16 children and their teacher before killing himself.
April 2002 - GERMANY - Robert Steinhauser, 19, opens fire in Erfurt after saying he would not pass a math exam. He kills 12 teachers, a secretary, two students, and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
September 2004 - RUSSIA - More than 300 hostages - half of them children - die in School No. 1 in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia after it is seized by rebels demanding Chechen independence and an immediate end to the war there. Many of those killed were killed when the school was attacked.
November 2007 - FINLAND - Pekka-Eric Auvinen kills six other students, the school nurse, the principal and himself with a pistol at Jokela High School near Helsinki.
September 2008 - FINLAND - Student Matti Saari opens fire at a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwestern Finland, killing nine other students and a male staff member before killing himself.
March 2009 - GERMANY - A 17-year-old gunman kills nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart and another person at a nearby clinic. He is later killed in a shootout with police. Two bystanders are also killed, bringing the death toll to 16, including the gunman.
June 2010 - BRITAIN - Derrick Bird opens fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria. Twelve people are killed and 11 injured. Bird also kills himself.
August 2010 - SLOVAKIA - A gunman shoots dead six members of a Roma family and another woman in the Slovak capital Bratislava before killing himself. Fourteen others are injured.
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April 2011 - NETHERLANDS - Tristan van der Vlis opens fire at the Ridderhof shopping center in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six people before turning the gun on himself.
July 2011 - NORWAY - Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people in a government building in Oslo, then shoots dead 69 others, most of them teenagers, at a summer camp on the island.
November 2015 - FRANCE - Islamist attackers in Paris, armed with guns and bombs, target the Bataclan music hall, six bars and restaurants, and the perimeter of the Stade de France sports stadium, just outside the French capital, killing 130 people, including 90 concertgoers at the Bataclan, and injuring hundreds more.
July 2016 - GERMANY - An 18-year-old German-Iranian, who is obsessed with mass murder, kills at least nine people in Munich.
March 2023 - GERMANY - A gunman in Hamburg shoots dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah's Witness worship hall. Eight others were injured, including a seven-month pregnant woman who lost her unborn daughter.
May 2023 - SERBIA - A 13-year-old boy shoots eight other students and a security guard at a school in Belgrade. Two days later, a gunman kills eight people and wounds 14 others in a village near the Serbian capital. Both suspects are arrested.
December 2023 - CZECH REPUBLIC - A Czech student shoots his father dead and then kills 14 people at his university in Prague. The gunman, who was killed at the scene by possibly one of his own bullets, is also suspected of killing another man and his two-month-old daughter, who were found shot to death in a forest in a village outside Prague a week ago.
March 2024 - RUSSIA - Gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow, killing at least 139 people and wounding 182 others. The Islamic State, the militant group that once sought control over large parts of Iraq and Syria, claims responsibility for the attack.
July 2024 - CROATIA - A gunman enters a nursing home in northwestern Croatia, shooting dead six people, including his mother, and wounding five others.
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February 2025 - SWEDEN - A gunman kills 11 people, including himself, at an adult education center in central Sweden, in the country's deadliest mass shooting.
June 2025 - AUSTRIA - A gunman enters a high school in the southern city of Graz and opens fire, killing at least nine people. The attacker also dies.
