One child killed, two wounded in Finland school shooting, 12-year-old boy held
Helsinki, Finland Reuters One child was killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody. The arrest of the boy was made without further violence in the Helsinki suburb of Siltamaki, four kilometres […]
Tens of thousands in Serbia protest mass shootings, government policies
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters Tens of thousands braved rain and wind in Belgrade on Saturday in an anti-government protest over two mass shootings that killed 18 people, blaming the deaths on a culture of violence that critics say authorities have allowed to permeate society. On 3rd May a teenage boy killed nine pupils and a security guard […]
After two mass shootings, can Serbia rid itself of guns?
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters After Serbia was rocked by two mass shootings in two days earlier in May, Branko, 54, surrendered his unlicensed arms under a government amnesty: four assault rifles, nine handguns, eight grenades and many boxes of ammunition. The huge cache of weapons handed over by just one veteran of the wars that tore apart […]
Serbia’s education minister resigns over school shooting
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters Serbia’s Education Minister Branko Ruzic resigned on Sunday over last week’s shooting at an elementary school in which eight children and a security guard were killed, amid public anger over that and another mass shooting just a day later. The country is in shock and mourning over the two shootings: the school massacre […]
Serbia struggles to comprehend first school shooting
Belgrade, Serbia Reuters Shocked Serbians mourned the nine victims of their nation’s first mass school shooting on Thursday while teachers demanded better security and two wounded pupils fought for their lives. The suspected shooter, a 13-year-old boy, surrendered on Wednesday, police said, after taking two of his father’s handguns to kill eight pupils and a security […]
Updated: Nine killed in planned attack at Serbian school by 13-year-old boy
Updated: 8am, 4th May, 2023 (AEST)Belgrade, SerbiaReuters A 13-year-old boy gunned down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school on Wednesday in a planned attack, prompting Serbia’s president to announce tougher curbs on gun ownership. Using two handguns that belonged to his father, the boy fired first at the guard and […]
Sight-Seeing: Weeping in Nashville
SCOTT SAULS, senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, contemplates – in an article published by Religion News Service – the ‘why?’ of this week’s shooting…
Head of Nashville school in shooting would “run to” danger
Nashville, Tennessee, USAP The head of the Christian elementary school in Nashville who was killed in a shooting there on Monday was described by friends as smart, loving and a rare female leader within a male-led religious culture. “If there was any trouble in that school, she would run to it, not from it,” Jackie Bailey said […]
Nashville school shooter had ’emotional disorder’ and small arsenal, police say
Nashville, Tennessee, US Reuters The 28-year-old former student who killed three children and three adults at a Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder” and had purchased seven guns ahead of the shooting, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday. New details about Audrey Elizabeth Hale […]
Updated: Swastika-wearing gunman kills 15 at Russian school
Updated: 7:10am, 27th September (AEST)Moscow, Russia Reuters A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said. The attacker, a man in his early thirties who was named by authorities as Artem Kazantsev, killed two security […]