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Shocking school shooting across the world in recent years (8)

People's Daily Online)  15:07, December 18, 2012

Police use Finnish Army's armored vehicle to seal the area around a school in Kauhajoki where a student shot dead several people before shooting himself on Sept 23, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that occurred in U.S. on Dec 15, 2012. A young man killed his mother at home, and then 20 children and six adults at school, before he committed suicide. The latest U.S. school shooting rampage shocked the world again.

World-stunning school shootings in recent years

2012.08.27 : A high school student is shot on campus in U.S. state of Maryland
2012.04.23: The shooting at a college in the U.S. city of Oakland which killed seven people
2012.03.20: Three children and a teacher are killed outside a Jewish school in the southwestern French city of Toulouse.
2012.03.07: Two people are killed in a high school shooting in the U.S. state of Florida
2012.02.07: A teen gunman on Monday opens fire in the cafeteria of Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, U.S. , killing one student while injuring four others
2012.10.24: A teen girl is shot in a high school shooting in the U.S. state of North Carolina
2011.09.28: Two are shot dead at southern California high school
2011.09.22: Ten-year-old shoots teacher, kills himself in Brazil
2010.10.08: The gunman is held in Calif. school shooting. Two students were wounded
2010.10.08: An alleged gunman who opened fire in a primary school in Carlsbad, Calif. was subdued by bystanders after he wounded two teenagers in a shooting spree
2010.04.07: 11 are dead and 22 injured in a campus shooting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009.11.26: A shooting occurred at the University of Pécs in Hungary. A student died in the shooting.
2009.03.11: Germany is shocked by a tragic school shooting that killed 16 people including the 17-year-old gunman.
2008.09.24: Shooting shocks Finnish school. A Finnish student killed 10 people and then himself at a college in the western city of Kauhajoki.
2008.02.15: Several people are shot at Northern Illinois University in Chicago.
2008.02.11: A student is critically wounded in a school shooting in Tennessee, U.S.
2008.02.08: Three are killed in a shooting incident in a vocational technical college in the U.S.
2008.02.07: Teacher shot in elementary school in Ohio

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(Editor:王欣、张茜)

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