And man entered a kindergarten in southern Brazil with an ax and committed a massacre murder four children and injure four others. The 25 year old guy turned himself in to the police after committing the crime, authorities reported. President Lula da Silva described the fact as a “monstrosity“.
The governor of the state of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello, said that the attack occurred in a private nursery and kindergarten called Cantinho do Bom Pastor, in Blumenau, one of the most important cities in that region of Brazil, bordering Argentina.
Several media reported that the murderer is 25 years old and entered the place by climbing a wall and carrying a small ax with which he carried out the massacre. The parents of the surviving children went to the establishment to remove the other children, amid a state of general shock.
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The attacker “jumped over the wall with a bladed weapon, such as an axe. Hit the children, especially in the head area“, Diogo de Souza Clarindo, from the Fire Department, told the local press.
He killed a girl and three boys between the ages of 5 and 7added the firefighter in front of the Cantinho do Bom Pastor private nursery, in Blumenau.
In addition, a medical center received four injured children. The injured are two 5-year-old girls, and two boys aged 3 and 5, informed the AFP sources of Hospital Santo Antonio de Blumenau. According to Souza Clarindo, one of the little ones is in a “serious” condition. In the place there were babies who had been left by their parents before going to work.
Lula’s message
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva He expressed his solidarity with the families on social networks.
“There is no greater pain than when a family loses a child or grandchild, even more so in an act against innocent and defenseless children,” the president said.
“My feelings and prayers for the families of the victims and the Blumenau community in the face of the monstrosity that occurred at the Bom Pastor daycare center,” he added.
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On his side, the governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello, indicated in a note that he “immediately” activated the action of the security forces, who are still working in the place, and decreed three days of official mourning.
The Blumenau mayor’s office suspended classes in city schools and Easter celebrations.
“He went to the yard to kill”
A teacher, Simone Aparecida Camargo, recounted that she locked several children in a bathroom to protect them from the attacker, who killed the children in the yard, according to the Metropoles site.
The companions “saw it. He went to the yard to kill“added the teacher.
Videos from the Santa Catarina Fire Department show the deployment, with several ambulances and police vehicles stationed outside the nursery, a low building with drawings on the walls.
In other images of the place released by the G1 news site, dozens of people are seen waiting behind a security cordon, while an agent asked for “calm.” “Only fathers and mothers” are allowed in, she said.
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