In conjunction with the memorable attack by a suspected right-wing Christian gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people on a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling Labour party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo , the following is a snapshot timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents carried out by one or two gunmen around the world in the last 20 years;- April 1982 - SOUTH KOREA: Police officer Woo Bum Kong went on a drunken rampage in Sang-Namdo with rifles and hand grenades, killing 57 people and wounding 38 before blowing himself up.
- Aug. 19, 1987 – BRITAIN: Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old gun fanatic rampaged through the English town of Hungerford, killing 16 people and wounding 11 before shooting himself.
- July 1989 - FRANCE: A French farmer shot and killed 14 people including members of his family in the village of Luxiol, near the Swiss border. He was wounded and captured by police.
- Dec. 1989 - CANADA: A 25-year-old war movie fan with a grudge against women shot dead 14 young women at the University of Montreal, then killed himself.
- Nov. 1990 - NEW ZEALAND: A gun-mad loner killed 11 men, women and children in a 24-hour rampage in the tiny New Zealand seaside village of Aramoana. He was killed by police.
- Sept. 1995 - FRANCE: A 16-year-old youth ran amok with a rifle in the town of Cuers, killing 16 people and then himself after an argument with his parents.
- March 13, 1996 - BRITAIN: Gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shot dead 16 children and their teacher before killing himself.
- April 1999 - USA: Two heavily-armed teenagers went on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Denver, shooting 13 students and staff before taking their own lives.
- July 1999 - USA: A gunman killed nine people at two brokerages in Atlanta, after apparently killing his wife and two children. He committed suicide five hours later.
- June 2001 - NEPAL: Eight members of the Nepalese Royal family were killed in a palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra who later turned a gun on himself and died few days later. His youngest brother also died later raising the death toll to 10.
- April 26, 2002 - GERMANY: In Erfurt, eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after saying he was not going to take a maths test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
- Oct. 2002 - USA: John Muhammad and Lee Malvo killed 10 people in sniper-style shooting deaths that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area.
- April 16, 2007 - USA: Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the site of the deadliest rampage in U.S. history when a gunman killed 32 people and himself.
- Nov. 7, 2007 - FINLAND: Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed six fellow students, the school nurse and the principal and himself with a handgun at the Jokela High School near Helsinki.
- Sept. 23, 2008 - FINLAND: Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
- March 11, 2009 - GERMANY: A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black combat gear killed nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart. He also killed one other person at a nearby clinic. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two additional passers-by were killed and two policemen seriously injured, bringing the death toll to 16 including the gunman.
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In conjunction with the memorable attack by a suspected right-wing Christian gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people on a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling Labour party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo , the following is a snapshot timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents carried out by one or two gunmen around the world in the last 20 years;
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