PARIS (AFP) - Friday's shooting on the Norwegian island of Utoeya in which at least 85 people were killed is the deadliest of recent times.

Before that, the worst shooting massacre was in 1996 when 35 people were killed in Australia. Here is a list of the deadliest shootings of the last 25 years:

- July 22, 2011 - NORWAY: A bomb attack on government buildings in Oslo that kills seven is followed by a shooting at a summer holiday camp organised by the ruling Labour party on the island of Utoeya, near to the capital. A man is arrested for carrying out both attacks and 85 people are so far listed as dead.

- January 8, 2011: UNITED STATES: Six people are killed and 12 injured -- including Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- in an attack in Tucson, Arizona.

- June 2, 2010 - BRITAIN: A taxi driver kills 12 people in Cumbria (north-west England) before committing suicide.

- November 5, 2009 - UNITED STATES: An army psychiatrist kills 13 on a military base in Ford Hood, Texas.

- April 3, 2009 - UNITED STATES: A man runs amok at a welcome centre for immigrants in Binghamton (New York state), killing 13.

- March 11, 2009 - GERMANY: Fifteen people, including nine students and three teachers, are killed by a 17-year-old in a high school in Winnenden, near Stuttgart. He later commits suicide.

- September 23, 2008 - FINLAND: A 22-year-old student commits suicide after killing nine other students and a teacher in a school in Kahajoki.

- April 16, 2007 - UNITED STATES: A student originally from Korea kills 32 people at Virginia Tech university, Blacksburg, Virginia. The 23-year-old then commits suicide.

- April 26, 2002 - GERMANY: Sixteen people are killed (13 teachers, two high school students and a policeman) at a school in Erfurt in central Germany by a 19-year-old who then commits suicide.

- March 27, 2002 - FRANCE: A man kills eight local councillors in the middle of a meeting and injures 19 others, 14 seriously. He later commits suicide in custody.

- 27 September, 2001 - SWITZERLAND: Fourteen members of parliament and local government are killed as they meet in Zug, near Lucerne. The killer then turns the gun on himself.

- April 20, 1999 - UNITED STATES: Two high school students go on the rampage at Columbine High School, Littleton (Colorado), killing 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide.

- April 28, 1996 - AUSTRALIA: A gunman kills 35 at Port Arthur, on the island of Tasmania.

- March 13, 1996 - BRITAIN: Sixteen children and their teacher are gunned down in Dunblane, Scotland. The killer commits suicide.

- September 24, 1995 - FRANCE: A teenager kills 16 people in the towns of Cuers and Sollies-Pont in south-east France before committing suicide.

- December 6, 1989 - CANADA: A man wanting to exact revenge on feminists kills 14 young women at a college in Montreal and then commits suicide.