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Grim register of school shootings
11 Mar 200923 Sep, 2008 Kauhajoki, Finland: Matti Saari, 22, killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himself at a vocational school.
14 Feb, 2008 Chicago, USA: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opens fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing five students and wounding 18 before committing suicide.
7 Nov, 2007 Tuusula, Finland: Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, shoots and kills eight people and himself at a high school.
16 April, 2007 Virginia, USA: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shoots 32 people at Virginia Tech, then kills himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
20 April, 1999 Colorado, USA: Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fire at Columbine High School, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 before committing suicide in the library.
13 March, 1996 Dunblane, Scotland: Thomas Hamilton, 43, killed 16 children and their teacher and then killed himself.
