At least four children died this Wednesday and three were injured in an attack on a nursery in the city of blumenauin the south of Brazilaccording to the Fire Department.
A 25 year old man invaded the Cantinho Bom Pastor nursery with a knifeattacked the minors and later turned himself in to the authorities, according to the Military Police, quoted by local media.
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This attack occurs ten days after another that took place in a school in São Paulowhere a 13-year-old teenager stabbed a teacher to death and injured four other people.
The new aggression took place around 09:00 local time (12:00 GMT). Several units of the fire department and the Police They have come to the scene to attend to the emergency.
“Four deceased minors were confirmed and three were transferred to the hospital”indicated the Fire brigadewhich reported that “other public security organs” they are also acting in the area to investigate the episode.
At the moment, the state of health of the injured is unknown, although the local press indicates that there are at least a child with a severe clinical picture.
In recent months they have come repeating aggressions similar in other educational centers of Brazila country that until recently was not used to these violent acts.
In addition to the attack ten days ago, on November 25, a 16-year-old teenager shot dead four people in two successive attacks on two nearby schools in Aracruz, in the state of Holy Spirit (southeast).
Two months earlier, a man armed with a revolver and two knives invaded a civic-military school and killed a student with a disability, in the state of Bahia (northeast).
Likewise, on March 13, 2019, two former students entered a school in the city of Suzanoabout 60 kilometers from São Paulothey assassinated five students and two workers, and left a dozen wounded, before both took their lives.
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