A nursery in southern Brazil was stormed by a teenager carrying a machete, killing three young kids and two adults on Tuesday.
Based on the Brazilian news outlet, the suspect was later identified as 18-year-old Fabiano Kipper Mai. The killing spree happened in the municipality of Saudades, which is in the southern state of Santa Catarina.
According to the Associated Press via Yahoo News, Municipal Education Secretary Gisela Hermann described the scene as a terror at the school during an interview with the online G1 news site. She also mentioned a guy was lying on the floor and still alive at the time, a dead child, and a dead teacher.
Three children, two staff killed in machete attack at Brazilian daycare centre
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05/05/2021 - 01:40 Photo released by Brazilian newspaper Impresa do Povo showing people and local authorities at the surroundings of the Aquarela Daycare School, after a 18-year-old man armed with a knife burst and killed three children and two staff, according to local police, at the southern city of Saudades, Santa Catarina state, Brazil, on May 4, 20121. AFP - JOCIMAR BARBOSA 2 min An 18-year-old attacker armed with a samurai-style sword burst into a daycare centre in Brazil Tuesday and killed three children and two staff, local police said, leaving the small southern town in shock.
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The victims include three children all reported to be under two years old and two staff members.
The attacker then turned the weapon on himself and is in critical condition in hospital, a police statement said.
It is not clear what was behind the attack in the small town of Saudades, in Santa Catarina state.
Several dozen children were in the building at the time of the incident and staff tried to hide them, officials said. A fourth child is said to have suffered minor injuries.
Military police say they received several calls at 10:35 local time (13:35 GMT) from neighbours who reported that a man armed with a machete had entered the nursery and was attacking staff and children.
Machete-wielding attacker, 18, who killed three children, all aged 1, and two staffers at a day care center in Brazil was bullied in school and harmed animals
The Santa Catarina Civil Police identified Fabiano Kipper Mai as the teen who killed two women and three one-year-old babies at a day care center in Brazil
Authorities revealed Kipper Mai, 18, had been bullied at school and reacted by allegedly hurting animals in the town of Saudades
The women were identified as Keli Adriane Aniecevski, 30, and Mirla Renner, 20
The babies were named as Sarah Luiza Mahle Sehn, Murilo Massing and Anna Bela Fernandes de Barros