5 other international attacks involving children
Posted December 16, 2014 5:17 pm.
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At least 141 people, mostly children, died when the Taliban stormed a military-run school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday.
Most of those killed during the gunfire at Army Public School and Degree College in the violence-plagued city of Peshawar were between the ages of 12 and 16.
But the brutal incident isn’t the only attack involving children in recent years. Below is a list of other violent attacks whose casualties were children.
Dec. 14, 2012: Twenty children and six adults were shot to death by gunman Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., making it the worst mass shooting at a school in U.S. history.
July 22, 2011: Anders Breivik bombed government buildings in Oslo killing eight people and then he shot and killed 69 people mostly teenagers at a Workers’ Youth League camp on Utoya island. He was found guilty of murdering 77 people on Aug. 24, 2012.
Aug. 14, 2007: Nearly 800 people were killed and 1,562 others injured during four suicide bomb attacks in two Yazidi community towns in northern Iraq, making it the second deadliest act of terrorism after 9/11.
Sept. 1, 2004: About 1,100 people were taken hostage including 777 children by a group of armed Islamic terrorists at a high school in Beslan in the North Caucasus. Russian security forces stormed building on the third day of the standoff and 334 people died including 186 children, while hundreds were injured.
April 19, 1995: Nineteen children die in a daycare attached to a government building bombed by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
