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Spree killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (327 words) |
 | The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders." Serial killers are different in that they have cooling off periods between attacks, while mass murderers typically stick to one location. |
| The worst spree killing was committed by Woo Bum-Kon (1982) when he killed 57 and then himself, using grenades and a high powered rifle. |
| One form of spree killing that garners particularly large amounts of media attention are those that occur in school killings, such as the Red Lake High School massacre in 2005. |
| 86 Iraqis Die in 2-Day Violence Spree, At Least 86 Iraqis Die in 2-Day Spree of Killings, Bombs; Insurgents Declare ... (834 words) |
| Three of the soldiers died in a roadside bombing Saturday south of Baghdad, while the fourth was killed in a roadside bombing Friday southwest of the capital. |
| Three people were killed in a mortar attack on the capital's troubled Dora district, while gunmen killed four members of a family in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. |
| South of Baghdad, three women and four men were killed in drive-by shootings in the predominantly Shiite village of Wahda on Saturday afternoon, police reported. |
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