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Three more were wounded. The drive-by shooting was part of a feud between two Birmingham gangs following the murder of a member of one gang. [26] 9 November 2002: London, England 0 4 4: Four people were shot and wounded during a mass brawl in Haringey, involving knives, bats, and guns. [27] [28] Another man was stabbed to death. [27] 23 June 2002
A school shooting/murder–suicide. Deadliest mass shooting in UK history. 7 July 2005 7 July 2005 London bombings: London, England 52: 700+ Al-Qaeda attack. Four coordinated terrorist Suicide bombings in central London between 08:50 and 09:47. It was the United Kingdom's worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. 2 June 2010 ...
Homicide rates (from firearms) per 100,000 people by country. [1]This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year.. Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards.
The murder indirectly gave rise to the working-class expression "sweet Fanny Adams" in the mid-20th century. 1946: Murder of Muriel Drinkwater: 1: Swansea, Wales: Muriel Drinkwater, 12, was raped and murdered in the woods in Penllergaer, Swansea. The case became known as the Little Red Riding Hood murder.
Deaths occurring during situations of civil unrest are a grey area. Map of countries by their intentional homicide rate per 100,000 people. Source (labeled on map): United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. [14] Intentional homicide is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its Global Study on Homicide report [15] thus:
The Home Affairs Select Committee agreed with the need for restrictions on gun ownership but stated that a handgun ban was not appropriate. An advocacy group, the six-member Gun Control Network, was founded in the aftermath of the massacre and was supported by some parents of the victims of the Dunblane and Hungerford massacres shootings. [21]
The Hungerford massacre was a spree shooting in Wiltshire and Berkshire, United Kingdom, which occurred on 19 August 1987 when 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot and killed sixteen people, including an unarmed police officer and his own mother, before killing himself.
Operation Trident logo. Operation Trident, or simply Trident, is a Metropolitan Police unit originally set up in 1998 as an initiative with the police to tackle "black-on-black" [1] [2] gun crime following a series of shootings in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Brent. [3]