A 12-year-old student attacked three classmates and a teacher on Monday at a private school in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas (north), in the third attack of this type in the last two weeks in the country.
The Secretary of Public Security of the state of Amazonas confirmed to EFE the attack that occurred on Monday afternoon at the Manaus Adventist Institute and indicated that the young man was carrying three Molotov cocktails in his backpack.
The school, for its part, released a statement in which it reported that the four injured were treated by the city’s emergency service at the premises and that with superficial injuries, without serious injuries, they all received a medical discharge.
The young man was arrested by the Police who went to the place and transferred to a specialized police station for minors.
According to what a prosecutor from the Guardianship Council, a state entity in charge of safeguarding family welfare with minors, told journalists, the young man broke into the classroom and was able to be surrendered by his classmates before the situation worsened.
In the struggle, a teacher and three students were slightly hit by the attacker’s knife.
The attack is the third in the last two weeks inside schools and colleges in the country.
Last Wednesday, a 25-year-old man invaded a nursery school and killed four children between the ages of three and seven with an ax and injured four others in the city of Blumenau, in the state of Santa Catarina (south).
This attack led the government to call an emergency meeting to announce resources of 150 million reais (about thirty million dollars) for various actions, such as police patrols and investigations of Nazi groups on social networks.
At the end of March, in a school in Sao Paulo, another thirteen-year-old teenager stabbed a teacher to death and injured four other people – three educators and a student.
Brazil has had a series of attacks on similar schools in recent months.
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 Espirito 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.
