Several dead in Brazil school shooting, including 6 children, police say.
A man comforts a woman at the Raul Brasil State School after a shooting that killed several people, including children, in Brazil on March 13, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
A teenager who was injured during a shooting at the Raul Brasil State School is carried on a gurney into a hospital in Suzano, Brazil, on March 13, 2019.Speaking outside the school, Marcelo Salles, commander of police forces in Sao Paulo state, said that in his more than three decades of service, he had"never seen anything like this, it was an unspeakably brutal crime."
A homemade video taken during the shooting and aired by Globo TV showed children screaming, running and begging for their lives as loud shots were heard all around. School shootings are rare in Brazil, even though the country is one of the world's most violent, with more annual homicides than any other. The last major school shooting was in 2011, when 12 children were shot dead by a former pupil in Rio de Janeiro.Police said the two men, who they did not believe were former students at the school, entered the building and started shooting at about 9:30 a.m. local time.
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