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11 students die in Brazil school shooting; police kill suspect
[Update 3:43 p.m.] The number of students killed in a shooting rampage inside a school Thursday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has risen to 11, Rio de Janeiro's health secretary said.
Thirteen students remain injured, including four in critical condition, he said.
[Update 11:33 a.m.] A shooting rampage inside a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killed 10 students before the suspect was fatally shot by police, the country's health minister said.
The student victims were nine girls and one boy, the health ministry told CNN. Eighteen others, 12 boys and six girls, were wounded. the government said.
Earlier reports erroneously stated that 13 had died at the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School.
[Update 10:47 a.m.] The suspect in the fatal shootings of at least 13 students and personnel of a school in Rio de Janeiro died after being shot by authorities, the state-run Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. He was identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 24, a former student at the school.
[Posted 10:08 a.m.] At least 13 people, both children and adults, were killed Thursday in a school shooting in Rio de Janeiro, CNN affiliate Record TV reported, citing civil police.
The incident happened at the Tasso da Oliveira Municipal School.
According to Record TV, a 24- or 25-year-old man entered the school in the morning armed with two handguns and opened fire on children and school personnel.
As the man fled, he ran into military police who were responding to the scene. There was a confrontation, and the man was shot, the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported. The man and the injured victims were taken to a hospital, the agency reported.
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São 11 mortos e 18 feridos no Rio. Presidenta Dilma, emocionada, faz 1 min de silêncio pelas vÃtimas. Imagens http://bit.ly/ecuVaJ.
I´m in Brazil right now and I cant just believe that all those crazy things are happening here.
It´s not God´s fault because everybody has free will, so u do whatever you want but you will be judged for it.
But I am not here to argue about God, but only to express how sadness I am feeling for it. It could have happened to anyone, anywhere, because in EVERYPLACE OR COUNTRY have insane and stupid ppl killing for nothing.
I am shocked!
wellcome....brazil the one violence :/
This is not a religious crime , definitely not , he was sick , and just leave letters with instructions about funeral , totally lunatic and terrible person , he just make a copy of other attacks out of Brasil .
Yeah, cool story bros.
It happens.
foi a policia que atingiu o homem na perna e o proprio bandido se matou
ele iria para o proximo andar matar mais crianças
Write in English, please!
I'm brasilian too,
the man suicide after he get a shout from the police
It's true and he isn't islamic.
I live here in Rio and heard for the news that the man who killed the children was a radical islamist, have no friends, behave weirdly on the last months and let te beard grow (these are his sister informations by phone heard on the radio), he was also at the internet all day long, perhaps conneted with jidadists goups..., he left a letter that the news affirm that contains radical islamists messages...., horrible situation....
MAILA, O CARA ESTUDOU DURANTE 4 OU 5 ANOS NESTA ESCOLA. COMO ELE PODE SER UM ISLANITA????
Anyone can become a Islamic extremist, all they have to do is declare they are and act like a sick, twisted animal that does not care for there fellow man.
This is B.S.! Everyone wants to make a Islamic person guilty for everything. You gotta be careful about what media says...
NO WAY!!!!!
HE TALKS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST IN HIS SUICIDE LETTER - APPARENTLY HE WAS PLANNING ON KILLING HIMSELF AFTER ALL - AND ISLAMS JUST DON'T!!!! THEY BELIEVE IN MOHAMED AND THEIR god IS NOT God, BUT ALA AND A BUNCH OF OTHER NAMES THEY CALL IT!!!!
HE WAS PROBABLY A MEMBER OF ONE OF THOSE NEW EVANGELIC CHURCHES (I'M NOT SAYING THEM ALL, OKAY?) THAT JUST POP OUT OF NOWHERE AND GET A TV SHOW AND SAY ABSURD THINGS UNDER THE WORDS OF THE BIBLE OR OTHER RELIGIOUS BOOKS!!!! THIS SHOULD STOP!!!!! THEY PRETEND TO "SAVE" EVERYONE THAT SIMPLY CANNOT BE "SAVED", SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED!!
HOWEVER, STOP PUTTING RELIGION INTO THIS, IT IS ALREADY AWFUL AS IT IS, AND WE ALL KNOW RELIGION ALWAYS MAKES MATTERS WORSE IN THESE CASES.
What a sad day. All this talk about god and it just isn't any good explaination why a crazy man killed innocent people. I want to believe there is a god but you gotta wonder why he would allow such awful things to happen around the world. Life isn't fair.
Absolutely unbelievable! Life seems so cheap nowadays and no where here on earth is there a safe place. Our innocent little children are at the mercy of insane or irresponsible creatures. What has happen to the goodness within them?
Good. it has NOTHING to do with God or religion ... but psychological disorder.
Madness.
I agree. The guy was totally crazy!
Brazil, bem-vindos ao pesadelo americano !!!!!!!!
Either you are ignorant or stupid.
These school attacks have happened in several countries, China, Germany, England & Scandinavia.
If you are not aware of that you are not informed, which makes you ignorant of the facts. If you are aware of it you simply want to insult the USA for your own particular reasons.
The fact that Brazil had no security at this school raises the question why?
Brazil, welcome to the American nightmare...
I am Brazilian, looks do not want to judge the USA more thanks to that country that idiot did this and he also wanted to play in an airplane that has the statue RIO equal to the twin towers
Absolutely unbelievable!
This is just plain crazy!
Thanks,
Joel Raes
Este ataque en Brasil fue realizada por los islamistas. El Islam es el mal y sus creyentes están atacando a la gente, en todas partes todo el mundo ahora. Da miedo.
Gente foi um absurdo, muito raro isso, mais graças a Deus a policia agiu rápido, se não teria sido pior ...
e o imbecil do assassino se matou ..
E a preferência ainda era de matar meninas com tiro na cabeça e no peito.. isso é inaceitável :S
Acho q demorou demais. Mas nao pq nao queriam evitar isso, mas pq nao tinha como evitar mesmo. Diante do q temos aÃ, foi terrÃvel sim e nao tem o q fazer.
11 ALUNOS MORTOS E O ASSASSINO !
AO TOTAL 12 MOOORTOS
NUMERO EXATO !
I am praying that the little forest children of the Amazon are not in this school. SOmeone please tell me that this school is further away from the Amazon Rainforest. My heart is breaking to hear this news...
Magi
Magilasala go ask your 2nd grade teacher to show you a map of Brazil and point out Rio de Janeiro state and the Amazon jungle. Then ask your teacher what google is. Good luck.
So are the "little forest children" any more precious than any other children??? Please! Rio is very far from the Amazon, I hope that comforts you.