After the massacre at Dunblane school, Queen Elizabeth laid a wreath at the site of the shootings. (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)
Sept. 1, 2004, Russia: Three hundred and thirty three hostages, at least 186 of them children, died at School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. The school was seized by rebels demanding Chechen independence. The deaths occurred during the chaotic storming of the school by Russian forces.
A man carries an injured boy in the school garden during a rescue operation. (Vladimir Suvorov / AFP)
A month after the September shootings in Russia, women mourn at the destroyed school’s gymnasium. (Maxim Marmur / AFP)
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In Beslan, relatives of a victim of the attack cry near a coffin during his funeral. (Vladimir Suvorov / AFP)
Sept. 23, 2008, Finland: Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwestern Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
People place candles near Kauhajoki vocational high school. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Associated Press)
Jan. 23, 2009, Belgium: A man with a white painted face and blackened eyes fatally stabbed two infants and a woman at childcare center in western Belgium.
The parents of Leon Garcia, one of the victims of the stabbing incident at a daycare center, carry his coffin outside the church after the funeral service in Dendermonde, Belgium. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Associated Press)
Jan. 23, 2009, Norway: A policeman shot to death a female teacher and then shot himself in what appeared to be a quarrel between former lovers outside a school in the northern town of Tromsoe. The policeman died of his wounds days later.
Emergency workers stand in a car park outside the school in Tromsoe following the shootings. (Dagbladet Nett / Associated Press)
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March 11, 2009, Germany: A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black combat gear killed more than a dozen people, including nine students and three teachers at the Albertville Realschule school in Winnenden. He fled and later killed himself after a gunbattle with police.
Police remove the body of a victim the Albertville Realschule secondary school in Winnenden, Germany. (Sascha Schuermann / AFP / Getty Images)
