The attacker sought treatment at the José Nigro Neto Municipal Hospital. After stabbing several people, he took a hostage and was later gunned down.
another episode more violence with bladed weapons in Braziljust two days after the massacre at the Blumenau nursery: a man entered a hospital in Américo Brasiliensein the interior of SÆo Paulo, and wounded seven people with a knife.
He was later shot dead by police after taking a person hostage, the Uol news portal reports.
The attacker sought treatment at the José Nigro Neto Municipal Hospital and seemed to be nervous. According to Military Police Major Alan Esteves Fernandes GouvÆa, a doctor had managed to give him medicine.
“At one point, he pulled out a knife and started stabbing people,” GouvÆa told reporters outside the hospital. Among the injured are employees and patients, according to a police statement.
The attacker left the hospital and was caught trying to stab another person in the street, a nurse arriving at work, whom he took hostage. As the woman managed to free herself, an officer who was negotiating her release shot and killed the man.
Source: Ambito
