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4 youngsters have been killed and 4 extra injured in an ax assault at a day care heart within the southern Brazilian metropolis of Blumenau.
These killed – three boys and a lady – have been between the ages of 5 and seven, native police say.
Jorginho Mello, the governor of the state of Santa Catarina, stated on Twitter {that a} male suspect has been arrested.
A police officer instructed CNN Brazil that the suspect, age 25, is known to have jumped over a wall into the playground of the Cantinho Bom Pastor day care heart, earlier than attacking the youngsters.
He fled after academics got here to the youngsters’s protection, and later turned himself into police, in line with the official.
Mello expressed his solidarity with the victims.
“Could God consolation the hearts of all households on this time of deep sorrow,” he stated.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva additionally gave his condolences.
“There is no such thing as a larger ache than that of a household that loses its youngsters or grandchildren, much more so in an act of violence in opposition to harmless and defenseless youngsters,” Lula wrote on Twitter.
