School shootings, like that at a university in central Prague that killed around 14 people yesterday, are much more rare in Europe than in the United States.
Here are the deadliest school shootings on the continent, not connected to terrorism, over the past 25 years:
Serbia 2023
On 3 May a 13-year-old gunned down eight fellow classmates and a security guard at an elementary school in downtown Belgrade.
Six children and a teacher were also injured. The shooter contacted the police, who arrested him.
Russia 2018, 2021
An 18-year-old gunman on 17 October 2018 killed 20 people including nine children and injured dozens more before killing himself at a technical college where he was a student in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
Armed with a shotgun and an explosive device, Ilnaz Galyaviev, then 19, opened fire on 11 May 2021 at School Number 175 in the western Russian city of Kazan, killing nine people, including seven children.
In 2023 he was sentenced to life in prison.
On 20 September 2021, a student dressed in black tactical clothing and helmet armed with a hunting rifle swept through Perm State University buildings killing six people, mostly women, and injuring two dozen others.
The gunman was shot by law enforcement officers as he was apprehended and taken to hospital.
Germany 2002, 2009
A 19-year-old former student, apparently in revenge for having been expelled, gunned down 16 people including 12 teachers and two students at a school in Erfurt on 26 April 2002. He then killed himself.
On 11 March 2009 nine pupils, three teachers and three passers-by were killed in a school shooting at Winnenden in southern Germany by a former pupil who then killed himself.
Finland 2007, 2008
On 7 November 2007 an 18-year-old student opened fire in a school in southern Finland killing five boys, two girls and the headmistress before turning his gun on himself.
On 23 September 2008 eleven people, including the gunman, died in a massacre at a training school at Kauhajoki, Finland.
