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Deadly campus shootings in US
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-04-17 10:31
In a deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history, a gunman killed at least
22 people and injured more than two dozens of others at a university in
Virginia during a two-hour span on Monday. The following is a list of
fatal shootings at U.S. schools in recent years:
-- Oct. 2, 2006: In Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a man shot and killed
five girls at an Amish school.
-- March 21, 2005: On an Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, a
male teenager fatally shot nine people, including five students.
-- March 5, 2001: In Santee, California, a teenager shot dead two
students and wounded 13 others.
-- August 10, 1999: In Los Angeles, California, a man fatally shot three
children and two adults at a pre-school.
-- April 20, 1999: In Littleton, Colorado, two teenagers shot dead 13
people and wounded 24 more at Columbine High School before committing
suicide.
-- May 21, 1998: In Springfield, Oregon, a 15-year-old boy shot dead two
students, wounded 25 after he was expelled for bringing a gun to school.
-- March 24, 1998: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys aged 11 and 13
fatally shot four students and a teacher and injured 10 more.
-- Dec. 1, 1997: In Paducah, Kentucky, a teenager fatally shot three
students and wounded five others during a prayer group.
-- Jan.1, 1989: A man in Stockton, California shot dead five children and
wounded about 30 people.
-- Jan., 1979: In San Diego, California, a 17-year-old girl killed two
adults and injured eight children.
-- May 4, 1970: Four students were killed and nine wounded by U. S.
National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus
of Kent State University in Ohio.
-- Aug. 1, 1966: In Austin, Texas, a sniper, identified as Charles
Whitman, killed 14 people and injured dozens from the clock tower at the
University of Texas.
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