A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers use a firearm to kill or injure multiple individuals in rapid succession. There is no widely accepted specific definition, and different organizations tracking such incidents use different criteria. Mass shootings are generally characterized by the targeting (often indiscriminate) of victims in a non-combat setting, and thus the term generally excludes bombings, gang violence, shootouts, and warfare. Mass shootings may be done for personal or psychological reasons, such as by individuals who are deeply disgruntled, seeking notoriety, or are intensely angry at a perceived grievance; though they have also been used as a terrorist tactic, such as when members of an ethnic or religious minority are targeted. The perpetrator of an ongoing mass shooting may be referred to as an active shooter. Most of them took place in public places.

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+YearIncidentLocationDeathsRef1944Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacreSant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy5602023Nova music festival massacreEshkol Regional Council, Israel3782004Beslan school siegeBeslan, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia334+20082008 Mumbai attacksMumbai, India 1752024Crocus City Hall attackKrasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia15120142014 Peshawar school massacrePeshawar, Pakistan1492015Garissa University College attackGarissa, Kenya1482021Tillia massacresTillia, Tahoua Region, Niger1412015November 2015 Paris attacksParis and Saint-Denis, France129 (gunfire) + 1 (bomb)20112011 Norway attacksOslo and Utøya, Norway67 (gunfire) + 8 (bomb) + 2 (indirectly)2013Westgate shopping mall attackWestlands, Nairobi, Kenya66 (gunfire) + 1 (friendly fire)20172017 Las Vegas shootingLas Vegas, Nevada, United States601997Luxor massacreLuxor, Egypt~601982Woo Bum-kon incidentUiryeong County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea562019Christchurch mosque shootingsChristchurch, New Zealand512016Pulse nightclub shootingOrlando, Florida, United States4920192019 Fada N'Gourma attackFada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso39+2017Istanbul nightclub shootingIstanbul, Turkey3920152015 Sousse attacksRiu Imperial Marhaba and Soviva, Port El Kantaoui, Sousse, Tunisia3820222022 Nong Bua Lamphu massacreNa Klang district, Nong Bua Lamphu pronvince, Thailand371996Port Arthur massacrePort Arthur, Tasmania, Australia 351999Mikenskaya shooting, Ichkeria, Russia341995Zhaodong massacreZhaodong, Heilongjiang province, China322007Virginia Tech shootingBlacksburg, Virginia, United States3220206 March 2020 Kabul shootingKabul, Afghanistan32+1938Tsuyama massacreKamo, Okayama Prefecture, Japan30

See also

List of mass shootings in the United States by death toll List of school massacres by death toll

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