At least 10 dead in Brazil school shooting
SUZANO, Brazil — Two young men wearing hoods and carrying guns, knives and crossbows opened fire at a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing eight people before taking their own lives, authorities said.
Doria said the school had been evacuated and police were inspecting what appeared to be possible explosives left by the shooters.A teenager who was injured during a shooting inside the Raul Brasil State School, is carried on a gurney into a hospital, in Suzano, Brazil, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. She said the attackers had guns and knives, and when she ran to the principal’s office, she saw many dead people.
“Then a lot of kids started running out, all screaming,” he said. “It didn’t take long until police arrived.” In 2011, 12 students were killed by a gunman who roamed the halls of a school in Rio de Janeiro, shooting at them.
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