At least four children killed in an attack in Brazil

Sao Paulo (BLAZETRENDS)

A 25-year-old man invaded the Cantinho Bom Pastor nursery with a knife, attacked the minors and then turned himself in to the authorities, according to the Military Police, quoted by local media.

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.

The new aggression took place around 09:00 local time (12:00 GMT). Several units of the fire brigade and the Police have gone to the scene of the attack to deal with 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.

Increase in violence in educational centers in Brazil

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.

In addition to the attack ten days ago, on November 25, a 16-year-old teenager shot dead four people in two successive attacks on two nearby schools in Aracruz, in the southeastern state of Espírito Santo.

Two months earlier, a man armed with a revolver and two knives invaded a civic-military school and killed a disabled student in the northeastern state of Bahia.

Likewise, on March 13, 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 of them left. they will take life

Lula condemns the attack

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, described as “monstrosity” the murder of four children this Wednesday in a nursery in the city of Blumenau.

“There is no greater pain than that of a family that loses its children or grandchildren, even more so in an act of violence against innocent and defenseless children,” the president wrote on his social networks.

According to Lula, “for any human being who has a Christian sentiment, a tragedy like this is unacceptable” and an “absurd act of hatred and cowardice.”