"...I was struck my some comments previously made in this thread which seemed to suggest or argue that we and the media have been making disproportionate fuss over this incident because far more people are regularly killed or injured in other(particularly Muslim) countries in comparison..."

That isn't the sentiment I was wanting to express in my post. The opposite, in fact. Focusing on incidents close to home on human-scale intimate details is the best way for us to understand what happens in far-distant countries to people who are just like us, once we realise that they're just like us. It would also help us to increase our desire to try to prevent these things happening. A good start would be to end the brainless demonisation of Islam/Muslims/Palestinians/Arabs that's been going on for decades, usually by seriously misguided people in western countries who mistakenly think they own the moral high ground.