Follow RT on A teenager has attacked a nursery school in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, killing three children, a teacher and an educational aide before injuring himself and being arrested at the scene, police have told local media.
Emergency services received calls for help from the kindergarten in Saudades, attended by young children aged between six months and two years, at around 10:35am local time on Tuesday.
According to local reports, the callers said that a young man who had made his way into the building was attacking those inside with a machete. The perpetrator managed to stab several people before being apprehended.
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.
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