Some of the Deadliest Mass Shootings Around the World

Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in the small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.

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Photos chronicling some of the world's worst massacres

The shooting deaths of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at a Connecticut elementary school Friday, who also killed a seventh adult at a second location, comprise the second-worst mass school shooting in U.S. history and is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a gallery of earlier examples of the kind of terror and tragedy madmen have wrought around the world throughout the last four decades:

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