Ex-students use crossbows and guns to hunt pupils at Brazil school, killing five children and three adults before committing suicide
- Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and Henrique de Castro entered Professor Raul Brasil school on Wednesday morning and began firing guns and crossbows
- The attackers were also carrying Molotov cocktails, knives and axes, authorities said
Two masked men armed with guns, knives, axes and crossbows descended on a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing five students and two adults before taking their own lives, authorities said.
The men, identified as former students at the Professor Raul Brasil public school in a suburb of Sao Paulo, also shot and killed the owner of a used car business nearby before launching the attack on the school, authorities said.
Besides the five students, the dead included a teacher and a school administrator, said Joao Camilo Pires de Campos, the state’s public secretary. Nine others were wounded in the school attack and hospitalised, he said.
“This is the saddest day of my life,” de Campos said, speaking to reporters outside the school in the Sao Paulo suburb of Suzano.
Authorities identified the attackers as ex-students 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Henrique de Castro.