Attacks on schools in 2025

school shooting at Örebro, Sweden adult education centre

2025 mass shooting in Graz, Austria

armed kidnapping in Papiri, Nigeria

On December 13, 2025, a mass shooting occurred at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, during the second day of final examination week for the fall semester. The shooter, Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the Barus and Holley Building and killed two students and wounded nine other students who were attending a review session, and then fled the scene before police arrived.

On the morning of August 27, 2025, a mass shooting occurred at the Church of the Annunciation in the Windom neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The attack took place during a scheduled school-wide Mass attended by the students and faculty of Annunciation Catholic School. Two children, Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski, and the perpetrator died in the shooting. Twenty-eight other people were injured: twenty-four schoolchildren and three elderly people from gunfire as well as a victim who sustained non-gunshot wounds. The perpetrator was identified as Robin M. Westman.

2025 child murder in South Korea

2025 stabbing at a school in Spišská Stará Ves, Slovakia

2025 school shooting in Antioch, Tennessee

mass shooting at Florida State University on April 17, 2025

2025 terrorist attack in Indonesia

Israeli airstrike in Gaza City