Three killed, 11 wounded in Brazil twin school shootings

The assailant was recognized as a 16-year-old ex-student who used a semi-automatic weapon and wore navy fatigues.

At the very least three folks had been killed and 11 wounded after a former scholar opened hearth at two faculties within the southeastern Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, police mentioned.

The alleged shooter was recognized as a 16-year-old who wore military-style camouflage apparel with Nazi symbols, the authorities mentioned of the dual assaults that came about at 10am (13:00 GMT) on Friday within the city of Aracruz, 80km north of state capital Vitoria.

He first fired on academics at his former faculty, a public main and secondary faculty, killing two folks and injuring 9.

The shooter then went to a personal faculty on the identical avenue, the place he killed an adolescent lady and wounded two folks, officers mentioned.

{The teenager} has been arrested, Espirito Santo Governor Renato Casagrande confirmed.

“He was a scholar at (the primary) faculty till June, a 16-year-old minor. His household then transferred him to a different faculty. We’ve data he was present process psychiatric therapy,” Casagrande instructed a press convention.

Two weapons had been used within the assault by {the teenager}, who’s the son of a navy police officer. Each firearms had been registered to his father.

Safety digicam footage broadcast on Brazilian media confirmed the shooter working into the varsity, speeding down the corridors with a semi-automatic weapon and firing photographs. Police are investigating any potential hyperlinks to extremist teams as he had a swastika on his fatigues.

The lives of a number of the injured remained in danger, the governor mentioned, as he declared three days of mourning within the state.

College shootings are unusual in Brazil, however have witnessed an uptick lately.

Twelve kids had been killed in 2011, when a person opened hearth at his former elementary faculty in Realengo, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, after which killed himself.

In 2019, two former college students shot lifeless eight folks at a highschool in Suzano, outdoors Sao Paulo, then additionally took their very own lives.

President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva described the shootings as an “absurd tragedy”.

Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2010, will take workplace on January 1 after defeating far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in final month’s elections.

He has severely criticised Bolsonaro’s leisure of gun-control legal guidelines.