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

6. Dunblane massacre (13 March 1996): 17 killed. Thomas Hamilton, an unemployed former shopkeeper and Scout leader, walked into Dunblane Primary School near Stirling in Scotland, armed with two 9 mm pistols and two .357 Magnum revolvers. He killed 16 children and a teacher. This tragedy led to the banning of handguns in Britain.

7. University of Texas Clock Tower massacre (1 August 1966): 17 killed, 31 injured. A day after killing his wife and mother, Charles Whitman, an engineering student and former US Marine, pointed a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and went on a 96-minute homicidal rampage before he was shot dead by police.

8. Columbine High School massacre (20 April 1999): 15 killed, 24 injured. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, stormed Columbine High School at Littleton in the US state of Colorado, and murdered 12 other students aged 14 to 18 as well as a teacher. Both the perpetrators of the attack then committed suicide.

9. The Ecole Polytechnique massacre (6 December 1989): 15 killed, 14 injured. Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lepine, 25, separated men and women in a classroom of the École Polytechnique at the University of Montreal, Canada, and shot all nine women present, killing six of them. He then moved through the corridors, cafeteria and another classroom, killing in all 14 women. He then took his own life.

10. Cologne school massacre (11 June 1964): 11 killed, 22 injured. Armed with a flame thrower, a lance and a homebuilt mace, Walter Seifert, 42, who was dismissed from police service after being found to be infected with tubersulosis, entered the Katholische Volksschule (Catholic elementary school) in Cologne, Germany, and opened fire on girls playing in the courtyard. He then knocked in classroom windows with his mace and fired inside. Eight students and two teachers were killed. He then consumed a cyanide pill and died the next day in police custody.
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