MADRID Reuters -A gunman killed at least nine people at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, in the worst school shooting in the country's modern history. Here is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents in Europe in the past four decades:.
He is wounded and captured by police. September - FRANCE - A year-old youth runs amok with a rifle in the town of Cuers, killing 15 people and then himself after an argument with his parents.
He kills 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
Many of the dead were killed when the school was stormed. He is later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two passers-by are also killed, bringing the death toll to 16, including the gunman. Twelve people are killed and 11 injured. Bird also kills himself. Fourteen more people are wounded. July - NORWAY - Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people when he plants a car bomb that kills eight people at an Oslo government building, then shoots dead 69 more, most of them teenagers, at an island summer camp of the ruling Labour Party's youth wing.
November - 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 people - including 90 concertgoers in the Bataclan - and injuring hundreds. Eight other people were wounded, including a seven-months pregnant woman, who lost her unborn daughter. Two days later, a gunman kills eight people and wounds 14 others in a village near the Serbian capital.
