Campus shootings elsewhere

8226; YEMEN, March 1997: A man with an assault rifle attacked hundreds of pupils at two schools in Sanaa, killing six children and two other people. He was sentenced to death the next day.

8226; JAPAN, June 2001: Mamoru Takuma, armed with a kitchen knife, entered the Ikeda Elementary School near Osaka and killed eight children. Takuma was executed in September 2004.

8226; GERMANY, Feb 2002: In Freising, Bavaria, a former student thrown out of trade school shot three people before killing himself. Another teacher was injured.

8226; GERMANY, April 2002: In Erfurt, eastern Germany, a former student opened fire at a high school in revenge for being expelled. A total of 18 people died, including the assailant.

8226; RUSSIA, Sept 2004: At least 326 hostages 8212; half of them children 8212; died in a chaotic storming of a school in Beslan after it was seized by rebels demanding Chechen independence.