Eight Dead in Mass School Shooting in Brazil

SUZANO, Brazil (AP) — Two young men wearing hoods and carrying guns, knives and crossbows opened fire at a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing eight people before taking their own lives, authorities said. The dead included six students and two teachers, and several other people were hospitalized with injuries, according to Gov. Joao Doria, speaking a few blocks from the public school in Suzano, a suburb of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city. The attackers appeared to be in their early to mid-20s, and authorities don't believe they were former students, the governor said. Doria said the school had been evacuated and police were inspecting what appeared to be possible explosives left by the shooters. "The school is on lockdown," he said. Students gathered outside the school recounted harrowing attacks and seeing several bodies lying in pools of blood. "We were at recess and eating like normal and we heard three pops, then we tried to run to jump over the walls," Rosni Marcelo Grotliwed, a 15-year-old student, told G1 news portal. She said the attackers had guns and knives, and when she ran to the principal's office, she saw many dead people. "My friend was stabbed in the shoulder and my other friend was shot," she said. "I escaped with one friend and went home and then came back to look for another friend." Horacio Pereira Nunes, a retiree whose house is next to the school, said he began hearing shots around 10 a.m. "Then...
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