Massacre in Brazil: Four children killed with axe in a day care center in Brazil

Blumenau, the city famous for hosting the Brazilian version of the German Oktoberfest, was shaken Wednesday by a brutal killing at a kindergarten. A man, whose identity and motives are unknown, stormed a kindergarten armed with an axe, killed four children aged five to seven and slightly injured a fifth. A teacher told how she managed to keep the door of the infants' classroom closed. This one in Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil, is the most recent, but deadly attacks of this kind are becoming more frequent. The previous one was nine days ago, when a student stabbed a teacher to death at a school in São Paulo. The 25-year-old killer carried out the attack early in the morning and then turned himself in to the Military Police, according to the police commissioner general of Santa Catarina, the southern Brazilian state where Blumenau is located. Commissioner Ulisses Gabriel, quoted by G1, of the Globo group, declared: "The computer crime repression police station, which has experience in extracting data from telephones and computers, wants to investigate if there are accomplices, if anyone else was involved, how he devised the plan and where he got the information from". In front of the arresting officers, the assailant remained silent. Witnesses to the massacre told the local press that he jumped over the school wall and randomly chased, axe in hand, some of the children present. The victims are three boys and a girl between the ages of 5 and 7.

2023-04-06T13:53:25+00:00
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