Lists of school-related attacks

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Lists of attacks [note 1] on schools include:

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  1. A narrow definition of "attacks" is used for this list so as to exclude warfare, public attacks (as in political protests), accidental shootings, and suicides and murder-suicides by rejected spouses or suitors that have occurred on school property or related primarily to school issues or events.

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