Question: Which incident saw more victims perish the Hungerford massacre or the Monkseaton shootings?
Context: Mick Ranger is an Essex, UK based firearms dealer.  He previously sold Michael Ryan the Chinese "Type 56" copy of AK-47 rifle that he used in 1987 to kill eight people during the Hungerford massacre. The Santa María School massacre was a massacre of striking workers, mostly saltpeter works (nitrate) miners, along with wives and children, committed by the Chilean Army in Iquique, Chile on December 21, 1907.  The number of victims is undetermined but is reliably estimated at over 2,000.  It occurred during the peak of the nitrate mining era, which coincided with the Parliamentary Period in Chilean political history (1891–1925).  With the massacre and an ensuing reign of terror, not only was the strike broken, but the workers' movement was thrown into limbo for over a decade.  For decades afterward there was official suppression of knowledge of the incident, but in 2007 the government conducted a highly publicized commemoration of its centenary, including an official national day of mourning and the reinterment of the victims' remains. The Marikana massacre, which took place on 16 August 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since 1960.  The shootings have been described as a massacre in the South African media and have been compared to the Sharpeville massacre in 1960.  The incident also took place on the 25-year anniversary of a nationwide South African miners' strike. . The Karavan shooting was a notable gun crime which took place in Ukraine's capital of Kiev on September 26th 2012.  The incident saw suspect Yaroslav Mazurok (or Mazurka) supposedly taken to the back room of the Karavan Shopping Mall by security guards.  At this point, he produced a gun and shot dead three of the security guards, seriously injuring a fourth, before escaping. The Cumbria shootings was a killing spree that occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, Derrick Bird, killed 12 people and injured 11 others before killing himself in Cumbria, England.  Along with the 1987 Hungerford massacre, the 1989 Monkseaton shootings, and the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, it is one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history. The Monkseaton shootings occurred on 30 April 1989 in Monkseaton, North Tyneside, United Kingdom, when Robert Sartin killed one man and left 14 other people injured during a 20-minute shooting spree.  It remains, along with the 1978 crimes of Barry Williams, 1987 Hungerford massacre, 1996 Dunblane massacre and the 2010 Cumbria shootings, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history. Events from the year 1987 in the United Kingdom.  At the beginning of the year, the Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon and remained a hostage until 1991.  The major political event of this year was the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in June, making her the longest continuously serving Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century.  The year was also marked by a number of disasters — the sinking of the ferry MS "Herald of Free Enterprise", the Hungerford massacre, the "Great Storm", the Remembrance Day Bombing and the King's Cross fire. The Battle of Aba, which took place on August 12, 1881, was the opening battle of the Mahdist War.  The incident saw Mahdist rebels, led by Muhammad Ahmad, who had proclaimed himself the Mahdi, rout Egyptian troops who had landed on Aba Island. The 2016 Aktobe shootings were a spate of shootings on civilian and military targets in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, in June 2016.  On 5 June, two attacks occurred at gun stores, while a third attack was aimed at a military unit.  Multiple shootouts between terrorists and police occurred over the next few days.  Another shooting occurred at children's camp on 8 June.  The shootings left 7 victims dead and 37 injured.  Eighteen attackers were killed and nine were arrested. The Hungerford massacre was a series of random shootings in Hungerford, Berkshire, United Kingdom, on 19 August 1987, when Michael Robert Ryan, an unemployed antique dealer and handyman, fatally shot 16 people, before taking his own life.  The shootings, committed using a handgun and two semi-automatic rifles, occurred at several locations, including a school he had once attended.  A police officer died in the incident, and many people were injured.  15 other people were also shot but survived.  No firm motive for the killings has ever been established, although one psychologist has theorised Ryan's motive for the massacre had been a form of "anger and contempt for the ordinary life" around him, which he himself was not a tangible part of.
Answer: Hungerford massacre