At least 26 people have been killed and several buildings burnt down in Mpeketoni after suspected al-Shabab gunmen opened fire.
Dozens have been killed after gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in an attack claimed by al-Shabab.
Aaron Alexis’s mother has said sorry to the victims caught up in the shooting spree by the former navy reservist.
A month before he went on a shooting rampage, gunman Aaron Alexis complained that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings.
At least 12 people have been killed in a shooting, where one suspected gunman was among the dead, while authorities search for other assailants.
Officials believe the shooter set a ‘trap’ by starting a house fire to lure firefighters into the home.
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It remains unclear why Adam Lanza (20), who had no criminal history and whose family remember as nerdy and remote, gunned down two dozen people.
A gunman opened fire inside a US shopping mall, killing at least two people and terrorising holiday shoppers before shooting himself, police said.
A suspect accused killing three women at a salon, had a history of domestic abuse, with claims that he had slashed his wife’s tyres weeks earlier.
Two people have been killed and at least eight wounded in a shooting outside the landmark Empire State Building in New York City on Friday.
A gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple in the northern US, triggering a shootout which left him and at least six others dead, local police said.
A masked gunman has shot and killed 14 people, wounding 50 others at a showing of the new Batman film at a Denver movie theatre in the US.
One person has been killed and six others wounded, two critically, in a shooting at Toronto’s main downtown mall.
A man armed with hand grenades and guns opened fire in the crowded centre of a Belgian city, killing two people and wounding 64, officials say.
Friends and neighbours of Derrick Bird, who killed 12 people on a shooting spree in the UK, are in shock that a "normal bloke" could wreak such havoc.