There have been many mass shootings in Europe , including scores of massacres in the 20th , 19th and earlier centuries . As of 2015 , the top three countries where mass shootings were most common were all European ones . Recent examples including the 1987 Hungerford massacre , the 1993 Greysteel massacre , the 1996 Dunblane massacre and the 2010 Cumbria shootings in the United Kingdom , the 1990 Puerto Hurraco massacre in Spain , the 2001 Zug massacre in Switzerland , the 2002 Erfurt school massacre , the 2009 Winnenden school shooting , the 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting and the 2016 Munich shooting in Germany , the 2007 Jokela school shooting and the 2008 Kauhajoki school shooting in Finland , the 2010 Bratislava shooting in Slovakia , the 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting ( and related attacks ) and the November 2015 Paris attacks in France and the 2018 Macerata attack in Italy . The deadliest mass shooting of all time ( to have been perpetrated by a single person ) occurred in Europe with the 2011 Norway attacks in Norway , in which 67 people were shot and killed ( in addition to 8 others by a bomb )
Cumbria shootings
Cumbria shootings
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