President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the assault as a “monstrosity.” (Representational)
Brazil:
A 25-year-old attacker burst right into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed 4 youngsters Wednesday with a hatchet-like weapon earlier than turning himself in to police, authorities mentioned.
Police and authorities officers within the state of Santa Catarina mentioned the person had attacked the personal preschool, referred to as the Good Shepherd Middle, Wednesday morning within the metropolis of Blumenau, additionally leaving 4 victims wounded.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the assault as a “monstrosity.”
“There isn’t any better ache than a household that loses youngsters or grandchildren, much more so when it’s in an act of violence in opposition to harmless and defenseless youngsters,” he wrote on Twitter.
“My ideas and prayers are with the victims’ households.”
A state authorities supply confirmed to AFP the 4 victims had been youngsters.
Brazilian media reviews mentioned the weapon used resembled a hatchet.
Santa Catarina Governor Jorginho Mello declared three days of mourning within the state for the “horrible” assault.
Violence in faculties has been rising in Brazil in recent times.
Final week, a 13-year-old boy killed a instructor in a knife assault at a faculty in Sao Paulo.
In November, a 16-year-old shooter killed 4 individuals and wounded greater than 10 others in twin assaults on two faculties within the southeastern metropolis of Aracruz, in Espirito Santo state.
In 2019, two former college students shot useless eight individuals at a highschool in Suzano, exterior Sao Paulo, then additionally took their very own lives.
The nation’s deadliest faculty taking pictures left 12 youngsters useless in 2011, when a person opened hearth at his former elementary faculty within the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Realengo, then killed himself.
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