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A schoolhouse shooting Tuesday successful Acre authorities successful bluish Brazil near 2 women dormant and 2 others injured, including an underage student, authorities said.
The authorities authorities said successful a connection that a 13-year-old pupil admitted carrying retired the onslaught astatine the nationalist schoolhouse Instituto Sao Jose successful Rio Branco, the authorities capital.
The 2 fatalities were pistillate unit members who died astatine the scene. Another unit subordinate and a pupil were injured by gunfire and taken to a hospital. The injured student, an 11-year-old girl, was changeable successful the leg.
Officials did not disclose the victims' identities. Police said the fishy was detained and utilized a weapon owned by a ineligible guardian. Local media reported the limb belonged to the teenager's stepfather, who was besides detained.
The fishy fired respective shots successful a hallway starring to the principal's office, Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Russo of the Acre subject constabulary section told reporters. He surrendered to constabulary aft the attack.
Eduardo Rodrigues Cavalcante, a receptionist astatine a edifice adjacent to the school, described scenes of terror, arsenic immoderate students tried to leap implicit a partition separating the schoolhouse from the hotel.
"The partition is six meters high, and lone 1 idiosyncratic managed to leap implicit and instrumentality refuge present successful the hotel. The different radical were near connected the schoolhouse extortion trying to escape," the 19-year-old receptionist said, adding that helium heard "gunshots and a batch of screaming."
Emergency responders assistance a pistillate aft a shooting astatine the Sao Jose school, wherever 2 unit members were killed, the Acre authorities authorities confirmed successful a statement, successful Rio Branco, Brazil, May 5, 2026.
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Images released by a section media outlet showed a pistillate being evacuated connected a stretcher and scenes of heartbreak extracurricular the school, with radical crying and hugging each other.
"The authorities expresses heavy solidarity with the victims' families, the schoolhouse assemblage of Instituto Sao Jose and each acquisition professionals affected by this incident," Acre Gov. Mailza Assis said successful a statement.
Officials said that classes had been suspended for 3 days astatine each schools successful the authorities and that intelligence enactment teams had been mobilized to assistance students and teachers.
Brazil has seen a crisp summation successful attacks connected acquisition institutions successful caller years.
In September 2025, 2 teenagers were changeable and killed, and 3 others were wounded astatine a schoolhouse successful the northeastern authorities of Ceara.
In October 2023, a shooting astatine a schoolhouse successful Sao Paulo near a 17-year-old pupil dormant and 3 others wounded. That aforesaid year, a teen was killed and 3 others were wounded successful a weapon onslaught arsenic they near a schoolhouse successful the southeastern authorities of Minas Gerais.
In April 2023, a 25-year-old antheral entered a daycare halfway successful the confederate authorities of Santa Catarina and killed 4 children betwixt the ages of 3 and 7 with an axe.
In 2022, a erstwhile pupil equipped with a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver killed 4 radical and wounded 12 in 2 schools successful Brazil. Police aboriginal said the fishy had a swastika pinned to his vest and had been readying the attacks for 2 years.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.
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