Hamburg  - The shooting spree at a school in western Finland on Tuesday added to the growing list of bloodshed committed by students at schools and universities over the past decade. Following is a list of the bloodiest incidents:

-- September 23, 2008: Police report nine killed in a shooting spree by a gunman at a trade school in Kauhajoki, some 300 kilometres north-west of the Finnish capital Helsinki.

-- February 14, 2008: Seven people, including the gunman who shot himself dead, are killed and some 20 wounded when the former sociology student goes on a shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

-- November 7, 2007: In the Finnish town of Tuusula, an 18-year-old high schooler shoots dead six other students, a school nurse and the director before killing himself.

-- April 16, 2007: In Blacksburg in the US state of Virginia, a 23- year-old student from South Korea goes on a rampage, at Virginia Tech University, shooting dead 32 students and teachers. When police arrived on campus, he kills himself.

-- March 21, 2005: On an Indian reservation in the US state of Minnesota, a 16-year-old Chippewa youth first shoots dead his grandfather and the grandfather's girlfriend. He then shoots dead five students, a security guard and a female teacher at Red Lake High School before killing himself during a shootout with police.

-- April 26, 2002: In Erfurt, Germany, a 19-year-old high school student who had been ejected from the Gutenberg-Gymnasium school goes on a rampage, killing 12 teachers, two students, a school secretary and a policeman before killing himself.

-- April 20, 1999: Two students armed with assault rifles shoot dead 12 other students and a teacher in a rampage at Columbine High School in the US state of Colorado. The two then shoot themselves.

-- March 13, 1996: In Dunblane, Scotland, a 43-year-old unemployed man in an apparent act of revenge shoots dead 16 first-grade pupils in a primary school, along with their teacher. He then kills himself. (dpa)