TIMELINE-Recent shooting incidents in Europe

Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:23am EDT

Aug 30 (Reuters) - A gunman killed six people in Slovakia on Monday, the national rescue service said.

Here is a timeline of some major recent shooting incidents in Europe:

Feb. 2002 - GERMANY - In Freising, Bavaria, a former student who had been thrown out of trade school shot killed three people before killing himself. Another teacher was injured.

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.

Sept. 1, 2004 - RUSSIA - Three hundred and thirty three hostages, at least 186 of them children, died in a chaotic storming by Russian forces of School No.1 in Beslan, after it was seized by rebels demanding Chechen independence.

Nov. 20, 2006 - GERMANY - An 18-year-old former pupil opened fire after storming the Scholl school in the western town of Emsdetten. He wounded at least 11 people before killing 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.

Jan. 23, 2009 - NORWAY - A policeman shot dead a trainee female teacher and then shot himself in what appeared to be a quarrel between former lovers outside a school in the northern town of Tromsoe. The policeman died of his wounds days later.

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 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.

Dec. 31, 2009 - FINLAND - A Kosovan-born gunman, Ibrahim Shkupolli, killed three men and a woman at the Sello mall in Espoo, a town near Helsinki as shoppers stocked up for the New Year holiday.

June 2, 2010 - BRITAIN - Gunman Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria. Twelve people were killed and 11 injured. Bird also killed himself.

Aug. 30, 2010 - SLOVAKIA - A gunman killed six members of a single family and then shot himself when cornered by policemen in the Slovak capital Bratislava.

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