At least four children have died this Wednesday and three have been injured in an attack on a nursery in the city of Blumenau, in southern Brazil, a government source told AFP.
The perpetrator of the attack, a 25-year-old man, invaded the Cantinho Bom Pastor nursery with a knife around 09:00 local time (12:00 GMT), attacked the minors and then turned himself in to the authorities, according to the Military Police. quoted by local media.
Several units of the fire brigade and the police have gone to the scene to attend to the emergency.
“Four deceased minors were confirmed and three were taken to the hospital,” said the Fire Department, which reported that “other public security bodies” are also acting in the area to investigate the episode.
At the moment, the state of health of the injured is unknown, although the local press indicates that there is at least one child with a serious clinical picture.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned “the monstrosity” that occurred: “There is no pain greater than that of a family that loses its children or grandchildren, even more so in an act of violence against innocent and defenseless children,” he wrote in a message On twitter.
In recent months, similar attacks have been repeated in other educational centers in Brazil, a country that until recently was not used to these violent acts.
This attack comes ten days after another that took place at a school in Sao Paulo, where a 13-year-old teenager stabbed a teacher to death and injured four other people.
Last November, a 16-year-old teenager shot dead four people and injured more than a dozen in two attacks on schools in the city of Aracruz, in the state of Espirito Santo.
In 2019, two former students entered a school in the city of Suzano, some 60 kilometers from Sao Paulo, killing five students and two workers, and leaving a dozen injured, before both took their own lives.
However, the deadliest attack on record in Brazil occurred in 2011: 12 children were killed when a man opened fire at their former nursery school in Realengo, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, before committing suicide.
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