The biggest attacks that have shaken Europe in the past 40 years

May 1987 BELIEF Michael Van Winndale kills seven people in Belgium, then shoots himself as police try to force him to surrender.

August 1987 BRITAIN Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old gun fanatic, creates a tragedy in the English city of Hugerford, killing 16 people and injuring 11 others before he shot himself.

In July 1989, a French farmer shoots and kills 14 people, including members of his family in the village of Luxiol, near the Swiss border. He is then injured and captured by the police.

March 1996, BRITAIN Thomas Hamilton goes into an elementary school in the Scottish city of Dunblane and kills 16 children and their teacher before he kills himself.

April 8, 2002 RERMANIA H Robert Steinhower, 19, opens fire in Erfurt after saying he would not give a math exam. He kills 12 teachers, one secretary, two students, and a policeman in Gutenberg high school before killing himself.

September 2004 Over 300 hostages half their kids die in No School. 1 in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia, as it is conquered by rebels seeking Chechen independence and an immediate end to the war there.

November 2007 FINLAND FINLAND ) Pekka-Eric Auvinen kills six students, the school nurse, the director, and himself with a gun in Yokela High School near Helsinki.

September 2008 FINLAND WHILLAND - Student Matti Saari opens fire at a professional school in Cauhajoki in northwestern Finland, killing nine other students and a staff member before killing himself.

March 2009 ▪ GERMANY A 17-year-old gunman kills nine students and three teachers at a school near Stutgart and another person at a nearby clinic. He's later killed in a shootout with the police. Two passersby are also killed, bringing the death to 16 including the armed person.

June 2010, BRITAIN Piggick Bird opens fire on people throughout the rural district of Cumbria. Twelve people are killed and 11 wounded. Bird also kills himself.

August 2010 ♫ SLOVAKI A person armed kills six members of a Roma family and another woman in the Slovak capital, Bratislava before killing himself. In this case, 14 more people are injured.

April 2011 "HOLANDE " Tristan van der Vlis opens fire at the Ridderhoff shopping mall in Alpen aan den Rine, south of Amsterdam, killing six people before pointing a gun at himself.

July 2011, NORWAY - Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people when he puts in a bomb car that kills eight people in a Oslo government building, then shoots 69 others, most of them junior teenagers of the ruling Labour Party.

November 2015 The FRANCE Islamist strikers in Paris, armed with guns and bombs, target Bataclan music hall, six bars and restaurants, and the perimeter of the Stade de France sports stadium, just outside the French capital, killing 130 people including 90 participants in the Bataclan concert and wounding hundreds more.

July 2016 An 18-year-old German-Iranian, who was obsessed with mass murder, kills at least nine people in Munich.

March 2023 ) GERMANY An armed man in Hamburg shoots six people dead before killing himself in a hall of worship of Jehovah's Witnesses. Eight others were injured, including a seven - month pregnant woman who lost her unborn daughter, reports Time.net, broadcast Periscope.

May 2023 ) SERBIA A 13-year-old boy shoots down eight other students and a security guard at a school in Belgrade. Two days later, an armed person kills eight people and wounds 14 others in a village near the Serbian capital. Both suspects are arrested.

December 2023 CHECK REPUBLEA A Czech student shoots his father to death and then kills 14 people at his university in Prague. The armed man, possibly killed at the scene by one of his bullets, is also suspected of killing another man and his two-month-old daughter, who were found shot dead in a forest village outside Prague a week ago.

March 2024 RUSIE Armed men broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow, killing at least 139 people and injuring another 182. The Islamic state, the militant group that once sought control over large parts of Iraq and Syria, takes responsibility for the attack.

July 2024 CROACIA An armed person enters a nursing home in northwestern Croatia, shooting six people, including his mother, and injuring five others.

February 2025 ♪ SWEDEN ♪ An armed person kills 11 people, including himself, at an educational center to raise in central Sweden, in the country's most deadly mass shooting.

June 2025 AUSTRIA An armed person enters a high school in the southern town of Graz and opens fire, killing at least nine people and then killing himself. /Periscope/