Police officers at the scene Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images Police officers at the scene Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images TWO FORMER PUPILS shot dead eight people, most of them students and staff, at a high school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday before killing themselves, authorities said.
After shooting at students in the yard, the killers headed to the language center where several pupils were hiding and “[killed themselves] in a corridor,” he said. President Jair Bolsonaro expressed his sympathies on Twitter to “the families of this inhumane attack,” describing it as “a monstrosity and enormous cowardice”.
Another website, G1, published a grainy video purportedly taken inside the school in which the screams of terrified pupils can be heard as they come across dead classmates.“We tried to help each other until the door opened and we thought it was the criminals coming for us; but no, it was the police… and we ran out.”Education Minister Ricardo Velez published a statement offering “solidarity with the parents, families and staff at the school in this moment of shock, mourning and pain.