Massacres in 2012

On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. The victims were 20 children between six and seven years old, and six adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school, Lanza fatally shot his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the school, Lanza killed himself with a gunshot to the head. The incident is the second deadliest school shooting in US history behind the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.

mass shooting in a movie theater in the United States

February 2012 association football riot in Port Said, Egypt

series of Islamist assassinations in France that killed seven people in March 2012

2012 killing of striking miners by police in Wonderkop, North West, South Africa

2012 murder of 16 civilians in Afghanistan by a US Army sergeant

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Massacre in Nuevo Leon, Mexico