At least four children were killed and three injured in an attack on a daycare center in the city of Blumenau, in southern Brazil, on Wednesday, the city’s fire department said.
A 25-year-old man entered Cantinho Bom Pastor’s nursery with a knife, attacked the minors and then turned himself in to authorities, the military police said, quoted by local media.
This attack comes ten days after another that occurred at a school in Sao Paulo, where a 13-year-old teenager stabbed a teacher to death and injured four other people.
The new aggression occurred around 09:00 local time. Several units of the fire service and the police went to the scene to deal with the emergency.
“Four deceased minors were confirmed and three were taken to hospital,” said the fire service, which reported that “other public safety agencies” are also acting in the area to investigate the episode.
At this time, the health of the injured is unknown, although the local press indicates that at least one child is seriously ill.
In recent months, similar attacks have been repeated at other educational centers in Brazil, a country that was not accustomed to these acts of violence until recently.
In addition to the attack ten days ago, on November 25, a 16-year-old teenager shot and killed four people in two consecutive attacks at two nearby schools in Aracruz, in the southeastern state of Espírito Santo.
Two months earlier, a man armed with a revolver and two knives raided a civilian-military school and killed a disabled student in the northeastern state of Bahia.
Similarly, on March 13, 2019, two former students entered a school in the town of Suzano, some 60 kilometers from Sao Paulo, killing five students and two workers and leaving a dozen injured, before they both left.
Source: El heraldo
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