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At about 9.40 on the morning of 13 March 1996 an armed man, Thomas Hamilton, entered Dunblane Primary School. He shot dead 16 children and their class teacher, and then shot himself. Within a few minutes reports of the shooting were being given on television and within the hour every radio and television station was broadcasting the story. The small town of Dunblane came under immediate media siege.
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Harrison, S. (1999). Postscript. In: Harrison, S. (eds) Disasters and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14640-6_15
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