A 14-year-old student attacked two 9-year-old girls with an ax

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A 14-year-old student attacked two 9-year-old girls with an ax this Wednesday at a Brazilian school located in the Farías Brito rural area of ​​the Carirí region, in the interior of the state of Ceará, in the northwest of the country. The attacker was arrested and prosecuted for attempted murder.

Far from being an isolated event, this episode was aligned with the tragic event that a 25-year-old man starred in on April 5, when he murdered four children between the ages of 4 and 7 with an ax in a Blumenau kindergarten. State of Santa Catarina.

In the most recent case, the two 9-year-old victims, who are in fourth grade, were admitted to a hospital in Barbalha. One of them was discharged, while the other remains in intensive care waiting to be operated on for a skull injury .

Júnior Almeida, Secretary of Education of the Municipality, reported that classes were suspended for the following two days and that the attack occurred in the afternoon during school hours, when the students were in their classrooms.

Terror in a school in Brazil: a 14-year-old student attacked two girls with an ax 9

Governor Elmano de Freitas, who is traveling in China with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, regretted the attack on Twitter: "From my official mission in China, I follow this regrettable episode of violence that occurred today in a municipal school in Farias. Brito, in the Cariri region. Our government will have what is necessary to support the municipality and the families”.

“The Ministry of Social Protection is working to provide psychological support to the families of the victims , to whom I express my solidarity for what happened. The school is a place of learning and peace! ”, She completed.

For his part, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, explained in dialogue with the GloboNoticias news channel that the National Consumer Secretariat will initiate procedures to determine the responsibility of social networks in disseminating threats.

If the platforms do not remove illegal content, they may be suspended or shut down in Brazil, especially with US Twitter's refusal to censor messages in favor of school massacres.

“We have two paths that we are going to adopt concurrently: on the one hand, administrative sanctions that can lead to the suspension of the company's activity. And, in case of non-compliance, we could reach the limit where 

Background in Brazil: a man hacked to death four children in a daycare center

A man who entered a day care center with an ax killed four children on April 5 and injured at least four others on Wednesday in southern Brazil, authorities said. The victims were between five and seven years old, according to local media.

Santa Catarina state governor Jorginho Mello confirmed the killings in the city of Blumenau on his Twitter account, writing that the killer has been detained. Firefighters confirmed that the man attacked with an ax and that three children were taken to hospital.

Firefighters and security agents attend to an attack with a knife at the entrance of the Cantinho Bom Pastor daycare center, in Blumenau, Brazil. Photo EFE

“An individual entered the school with a knife and killed four children . There were also four injured,” this source explained.

The perpetrator of the attack, a 25-year-old man, turned himself in at a Military Police station, where he was detained, the force said in a statement.

Police confirmed the four deaths and other children were taken to city hospitals for treatment. According to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, the victims were three boys and a girl, all between five and seven years old.

The same source indicates that the attacker arrived on a motorcycle, jumped over a wall and chose his victims at random. When he saw the teachers who ran to protect the children, the killer jumped over the wall again and escaped. He later turned himself in to the police.