10 Horrifying Student Massacres: From Cologne School Attack to Virginia Tech Shooting

Following are the 10 most horrifying attacks by terrorists and gunmen targeting students:

1. Beslan massacre (1 September 2004): 386 killed, over 700 injured. Members of Chechen leader Shamil Basayev's Riyadhin al-Salihin group took more than 1,200 school children and adults hostage Sep 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia. After a three-day standoff with Russian security forces, 386 people were killed, 186 of them children.

2. Bath School disaster (18 May 1927): 45 killed, 58 injured. Former school board member Andrew Kehoe set off three bombs in Bath township in the US state of Michigan. Kehoe later killed himself and the superintendent by blowing up his own vehicle.

3. Virginia Tech massacre (16 April 2007): 32 killed, 17 injured. The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting comprising two separate attacks about two hours apart, on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, US. The perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people before committing suicide. It was the deadliest shooting massacre by a single gunman in US history.

4. Ma'alot massacre (15 May 1974): 26 killed, 60 injured. On the 26th anniversary of Israeli independence, members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine took a group of 100 high school students hostage while they were on a class trip to Ma'alot in Israel.

5. Erfurt massacre (26 April 2002): 18 killed, seven injured. Robert Steinhauser, a 19-year-old expelled student of the Gutenburg Gymnasium School in the east German city of Erfurt, went on a shooting spree, killing 17, including a policeman, before killing himself.
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