Two masked men armed with guns, knives, axes and crossbows descend on a school in southern Brazil, killing six students and two adults before taking their own lives
Forensic vehicles transport the bodies of the people who were killed in a school shooting at the Raul Brasil State School in Suzano, in the greater Sao Paulo area, Brazil, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.
After shooting at students in the yard, the killers headed to the language centre where several pupils were hiding and "committed suicide in a corridor," he said. The two assailants, who wore hoods, were identified as former pupils aged 17 and 25. The reasons for the attack are unknown. Another website, G1, published a grainy video purportedly taken inside the school in which the screams of terrified pupils can be heard as they come across dead classmates."We tried to help each other until the door opened and we thought it was the criminals coming for us; but no, it was the police...GloboNews showed video images of pupils fleeing the scene after escaping over a wall.
Brazil had 64,000 murders in 2017 -- a rate of almost 31 per 100,000 inhabitants, or three times higher than the level the United Nations classifies as endemic violence.
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