From Wikipedia:
"List of attacks related to primary schools"
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February
7, 2008 Portsmouth, Ohio, United
States
Layne, the estranged husband of a teacher
at Notre Dame Elementary School, stabbed a bystander on the street prior to
entering the school. He then walked into his wife's fifth grade classroom where
he shot and stabbed her. Layne later shot and killed himself after a stand-off
with police at his home.
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November
12, 2008 Kandahar, Afghanistan
15 Militants in Afghanistan attacked three
separate groups of students and teachers by squirting acid on them while they
were walking to the Mirwais Mena Girls' School in Kandahar. Fifteen people were
injured in the acid attack. Ten people were later arrested in connection to the
attack, several of which confessed.
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January
7, 2009 Budapest, Hungary
A principal and a teacher were killed by a
security guard and an administrator at a private elementary school in the 21
district of Budapest at 6:40 pm. The guard afterwards shot himself in the hand
to support claims the deed was the act of an unknown masked gunman. The
perpetrators had been fired by the principal on suspicion of embezzling.
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January
23, 2009 Tromsø, Norway
A man shot and killed a female trainee
teacher and then fatally shot himself in the car park of a kindergarten. The
shooting occurred just as children were arriving for school.
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January
23, 2009 Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, Dendermonde, Belgium
Kim De Gelder entered a kindergarten in
Belgium and started stabbing people. Two babies and a 54-year-old woman were
stabbed to death and twelve other people were injured in the attack. De Gelder
also stabbed a 73-year-old woman to death in her apartment days earlier.
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March 3,
2009 Mazhan, China
40-year-old Xu Ximei, an allegedly mentally
disabled woman, stabbed two boys, aged 4 and 6, to death with a kitchen knife
and injured another three children, as well as the 76-year-old grandmother of one
of her victims at the primary school of Mazhan village in Guangdong province.
She was later found lying in a classroom and arrested.
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February
26, 2010 Tacoma, Washington, United
States
Jennifer Paulson, a 30-year-old special
education teacher, is shot to death outside of Birney Elementary School by a
man who was reportedly infatuated with her. The gunman, identified as
30-year-old Jed Waits, fled the scene but was later shot and killed by police
in a day-care center parking lot.
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March 23,
2010 Nanping, China
Eight children were hacked to death with a
machete and five others were injured outside an elementary school in Nanping.
The assailant, identified as 41-year-old Zheng Minsheng, was restrained by
school security guards and then arrested by police.
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April 13,
2010 Xichang, China
An assailant armed with a meat cleaver
attacked students and bystanders outside an elementary school, killing a
schoolboy and an elderly woman and wounding three other children and two adults
before being arrested by police. The assailant, identified as 40-year-old Yang
Jiaqin, was reported to be mentally ill.
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April 28,
2010 Leizhou, China
Chen Kangbing stabbed and injured 16
students and one teacher at Leicheng First Primary School in Leizhou before
being restrained by teachers and arrested by police.
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April 29,
2010 Taixing, China
Xu Yuyuan stabbed 29 children, two teachers
and a security guard at the Zhongxin Kindergarten in Taixing. It was reported
that five of the injured children were in critical condition.
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April 30,
2010 Weifang, China
Wang Yonglai, a 45-year-old farmer, used a
motorcycle to break through a gate at Shangzhuang Primary School in Weifang and
then assaulted several children with a hammer, wounding five of them. A teacher
also injured her foot, while trying to stop Wang, who ended his attack by
grabbing two children and pouring gasoline over himself. Teachers managed to
pull the children to safety, before Wang committed suicide by setting himself
on fire.
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May 12,
2010 Hanzhong, China
An assailant killed seven children and two
adults and wounded 11 other children at the Shengshui Temple Kindergarten in
Hanzhong when he attacked them with a cleaver. The assailant, identified as
48-year-old Wu Huanming, fled from the school and committed suicide when he
returned to his house.
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August 3,
2010 Zibo, China
A knife-wielding man attacked children and
staff at a kindergarten in Zibo. Three children were killed and three other
children and four teachers were injured in the attack. It was reported that two
of the injured teachers were in critical condition. The assailant, identified
as 26-year-old Fang Jiantang, was arrested by police after the attack.
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October
8, 2010 Carlsbad, California, United
States
A middle aged man holding a jack-o-lantern
stormed the campus at Kelly Elementary School, his bullets grazing the
shoulders of two students, six- and seven-year-olds. The assailant, identified
as 41-year-old Brendan Liam O’Rourke, was apprehended by police. O'Rourke was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
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October
22, 2010 Zamboanga City, Philippines
A 12-year-old girl, a teacher, and a
64-year-old man were stabbed to death by ex-convict Felin Mateo at Talisayan
Elementary School in Talisayan village. He also wounded four other children and
two teachers, some of them seriously, before he could be subdued by irate
villagers, who then killed him with his own knife.
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February
2, 2011 Placerville, California, United
States
Principal Sam Lacara, 50, was fatally shot
in his office at Louisiana Schnell Elementary School in Placerville. He later
died at a hospital. John Luebbers, a 44-year-old school custodian, was arrested
after the shooting. Luebbers was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
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April 7,
2011 Realengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A gunman armed with two handguns began
shooting at children and school personnel at Escola Municipal Tasso da
Silveira, an elementary school in the Realengo neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
13 people were killed, including the shooter, a former student. Police shot the
suspect in the leg, causing him to fall down a staircase, then the gunman shot
himself in the head. The shooter is reported to have left a suicide note.
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August
29, 2011 Shanghai, China
A 30-year-old woman slashed eight children
with a box cutter at a child-care centre in Shanghai, leaving one of the
wounded in serious condition. The attacker, a day care worker at the
kindergarten, who was said to have suffered from psychiatric problems, was
arrested.
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September
22, 2011 São Caetano do Sul, Brazil
David Mota Nogueira, a fourth-grade student
at Escola Municipal Alcina Dantas Feijão in São Caetano do Sul, shot and wounded
his teacher, 38-year-old Rosileide Queiros de Oliveira, with his father's
.38-caliber revolver. He then ran out of the classroom and committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
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November
15, 2011 Ga-Mmasehlong, South Africa
Gilford Shapo, teacher at Mmasehlong
Primary School in Ga-Mmasehlong village, was hacked to death with a machete in
front of his class by his brother Happy. The attacker was arrested by police.
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December
14, 2012 Chenpeng, China
An assaillant, identified as 36-year-old
Min Yongjun, stabbed 24 people, including 23 children and an elderly woman at
Chenpeng Village Primary School.
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December
14, 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, United
States
20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed his
mother at home, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School where he shot and
killed 20 students and six adult staff members before killing himself. This
event is the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, after
the Virginia Tech massacre.
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August
20, 2013 Decatur, Georgia, United
States
A gunman with an AK-47 fired six shots
inside the front office of Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, an
elementary school. After the gunman fired the shots, he barricaded himself in
the office and police at the scene returned fire. Nobody was injured. The
gunman surrendered in the office and was apprehended. Children had to leave the
building and were being guided to a corner of a field, where they were picked
up by their parents. The alleged gunman is a 20-year-old male named Michael
Brandon Hill.
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September
9, 2013 Guilin, Guangxi province,
China
Two adults were killed outside Balijie
Primary School, and 44 others were injured after a homemade explosive
detonated. Most of the injured were schoolchildren. One of those killed is the
bomber, who was riding his motorcycle during the explosion.
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October
6, 2013 Qabak, Iraq
12 children and the school principal were killed
in a suicide bombing at an elementary school in the village of Qabak. Two
police officers in an adjacent police station were also killed. 90 people were
injured.
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October
11, 2013 Long Beach, California, United
States
Teacher Kelleye Taylor was stabbed to death
as she was watching two dozen students at a playground in a park adjacent to
the Huntington Academy, where she taught the students at. The suspect was later
arrested at the mall. The suspect is Steven Brown, who is the father of Kelleye
Taylor's grandchildren. He is charged with murder and held on $1 million bail.
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October
17, 2013 Jacksonville, Arkansas,
United States
A man
with a knife hijacked a school bus in Jacksonville, taking 11 Pinewood
Elementary School students and their bus driver on a detour that police ended
in Cabot after a 10-mile chase. Police stopped the hijacking 20 minutes after
it began. The suspect, 22-year-old Nicholas John Miller, was charged with a
felony count of vehicle piracy, 12 felony counts of kidnapping, and two felony
counts of aggravated assault.
^ I am adding this because there was a school shooting in Nevada today and already people are saying the US has the worst school violence because of all our guns. This list (the full one starts in the 1700s, but I only went back 5 years) shows China has the most school violence in primary/elementary schools. ^
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