A 16-year-old girl died and another student was injured this Monday in an attack with a firearm perpetrated by a former student in a school in southern Brazilthe authorities reported.
The incident occurred in an educational center in the metropolitan region of Londrina, a city in the interior of the southern state of Paraná. The attacker was arrested.
“A former student entered armed”After showing up at school to “request your school records”reported the government of parana it’s a statement.
Once inside, “he shot two people. A 16-year-old student died at the scene and another student was shot and is hospitalized.”continued the state government, which did not specify the age or state of health of the injured student.
The local press reported that the attacker is 21 years old.
“The teacher who pinned down that former student he had gone through recent training and the police arrived at the school in just three minuteswhich prevented an even greater tragedy,” said the Governor of Paraná, Carlos Ratinho Junior, who decreed three days of mourning.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received the news with “sadness and indignation”.
“Another young life stolen by hate and violence that we cannot tolerate more within our schools and in our society,” the president tweeted.
Attacks on schools have increased recently in Brazil and the authorities attribute them in part to the “apology of violence” that circulates in the networks.
“The apology for violence is today in the palm of the hand of our youth, on smartphones, on tablets.in the irresponsible proliferation of messages of violence and hate on the internet,” said the Brazilian Justice Minister Flávio Dinoduring an event in Rio de Janeiro.
In April, four children between the ages of 4 and 7 were murdered in a Blumenau nursery, in Santa Catarina (south)by a man who attacked them with an axe.
The murders shocked the country and the federal government announced measures to regulate social networks to combat the growing threats against schools.
Also among the deadliest recent attacks is the 2019 murder of eight people at a secondary school. in Suzano, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. Its authors, two former students, they committed suicide afterwards.
The worst attack recorded in Brazil occurred in 2011: 12 children died when a man opened fire at their former nursery school in Realengoa suburb in Rio de Janeiro, before taking his own life.
Source: Ambito
