Snapshots of shooting incidents around the world

Timeline: Mass shooting incidents

July 22, 2011: At least 76 people were killed by Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted to targeting young Norwegian 'elite liberals' attending a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoeya.

June 2, 2010 - In the UK, gunman Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria, killing 12 people. Bird eventually killed himself.

November 5, 2009 - In the United States, least 13 people were killed and nearly 30 were wounded after Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on bloody rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas.

March 11, 2009 - In 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 later killed in a shoot-out with police.

September 23, 2008 - Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine other students and one staff member before killing himself.

April 16, 2007 - Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the site of the deadliest rampage in US history when a gunman killed 33 people including himself.

April 26, 2002 - In Erfurt, eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after refusing to take a maths test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.

June 01, 2001 - In Nepal, eight members of the royal family were killed in a palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra who later turned a gun on himself and died few days later. His youngest brother also succumbed to his wounds, raising the death toll to 10.

April 20, 1999, In the US, two heavily-armed teenagers went on a rampage at Columbine High School in Colorado, shooting 13 students and staff before taking their own lives.