Mass shootings in Europe

Candles lit for victims of Czech Republic's worst gun attack

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1 Dec 2023, Czech Rep: 24-year- old Czech student shoots dead his father and 14 people at his Prague university before killing himself

2 May 2023, Serbia: 13-year-old student at Belgrade school kills nine fellow pupils and one security guard. Next day 20-year-old man kills
eight in village south of capital

3 Mar 2023, Germany: Gunman in Hamburg shoots dead six people and one unborn child before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall

4 Jul 2016, Germany: 18-year-old German-Iranian man kills nine people and then himself at restaurant in shopping mall in Munich

5 Nov 2015, France: Islamist attackers in Paris armed with guns and bombs target concert hall, sports stadium, restaurants and bars, killing 130 people

6 Jul 2011, Norway: Neo-Nazi terrorist kills eight people with
car bomb in Oslo before shooting dead 69 people, most of them teenagers, at summer youth camp

7 Apr 2011, Netherlands: 24-year-old gunman goes on shooting rampage at shopping centre in town south of Amsterdam, killing six before turning gun on himself

8 Aug 2010, Slovakia: Gunman shoots dead six members of Roma family and another woman in Bratislava before killing himself

9 Jun 2010, UK: Taxi driver shoots dead 12 people in towns across rural county of Cumbria. He then kills himself

10 Mar 2009, Germany: 17-year- old kills 15 people, including nine students at school, in town north of Stuttgart. He is later killed in shoot-out with police


Sources: Reuters, BBC, AP
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