The attack recorded this Thursday at the Charles University in Prague, which caused at least fourteen deaths and 25 injuries, is the worst massacre recorded in the Czech Republic in recent years and also the worst of its kind suffered in educational centers in the world. so far in 2023.

Until today, the worst massacre in the Czech Republic in recent years was the one that occurred on February 24, 2015, when eight people died in a shooting carried out by an armed man who ended up committing suicide, in a restaurant in the town of Uhersky. Brod, in the east of the country.

Among the attacks that have occurred in the world so far this year against educational centers, the second most serious, after today's in Prague, was the one perpetrated on May 3 at a school in Belgrade (Serbia), where A 14-year-old student shot at his classmates and at the teaching and security staff, causing nine deaths and several injuries.

On March 27, a woman shot inside a school in Nashville, Tennessee, killing three children and three adults, before falling dead from police bullets.

Worst shootings in European educational centers

In Europe, the deadliest shooting at a school took place on October 17, 2018 at a high school in the city of Kerch, in Crimea (annexed by Russia), killing 20 people and wounding another 50. the shooting of a student against students and teachers. The attacker took his own life.

The next worst tragedy in a European educational center, by number of victims, occurred on September 22, 2022 when 17 people were killed and another 24 injured in the attack by a former student at a school in the Russian republic of Udmurtia, in the Urals.

On March 13, 1996, a man shot and killed sixteen children and a teacher at a school in the Scottish town of Dunblane (United Kingdom) and then committed suicide.

On April 26, 2002, a young man killed sixteen people and then committed suicide in revenge for his expulsion from a high school in Erfurt (Germany).. Among those murdered were the center's deputy director, twelve teachers, a secretary and two students.

Another fifteen people died on March 11, 2009 in Germany due to the attack of a 17-year-old boy in psychiatric treatment.. Among the victims, nine students and three teachers from a school in the town of Winnenden.

The most serious in the world

Among the most serious attacks against educational centers in the world, outside of armed conflicts or terrorist acts, the one perpetrated on October 6, 2022 by a former police officer in a daycare center in the town of Uthai Sawan, in northeastern Thailand, stands out. in which 34 people died, including 22 children.

On April 16, 2007, at Virginia Technical University in the American town of Blacksburg, a South Korean student killed 32 people before committing suicide.

The next bloodiest attack also occurred in the United States: on December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old young man killed his mother in Newtown (Connecticut) and then murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, before of committing suicide.