Deadly Mass Shootings Around the World
Pastor Dale Morgan
Deadly Mass Shootings Around the World*
By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Thursday, April 26, 2007; 2:23 PM
-- Some of world's worst mass shootings:
_ April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on
Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.
_ Nov. 20, 2006: Sebastian Bosse, 18, opens fire at former school in
Emsdetten, Germany, before killing self. Five people are wounded and
dozens hospitalized for smoke inhalation after he sets off smoke bombs.
_ Sept. 13, 2006: Kimveer Gill, 25, opens fire in cafeteria at Dawson
College in Montreal, slaying one student and wounding 19 before killing
self.
_ April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from
school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and
policeman, before committing suicide.
_ April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside
resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to
death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.
_ March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children
and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then
kills himself.
_ Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montreal's Ecole
Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and
then himself.
_ Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town
of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being
cornered by police.