(Sao Paulo) Une élève de 17 ans est morte et trois autres adolescents ont été blessés dans une attaque à l’arme à feu lundi dans un établissement scolaire de Sao Paulo, dans le sud du Brésil, selon les autorités locales.
« Une élève est morte et trois [autres adolescents] were injured were taken to hospital,” announced the Sao Paulo state government.
Two of the injured teenagers “were hit by the shots and they are fortunately out of danger,” said the governor of Sao Paulo Tarcisio de Freitas at a press conference, saying he was “dismayed” by this “new tragedy in a school”.
A third student was injured while fleeing the attacker, authorities said.
The attack took place early in the morning in a secondary education establishment which accommodates 1,800 students in Sapopemba, a district in the east of Sao Paulo, the largest city in Latin America.
The shooter, a student from the same establishment, was arrested and his weapon was seized, added the local government, without specifying his motivations. According to the Brazilian press, the weapon belongs to his father.
The governor clarified that the teenager killed was 17 years old, and not 15, as some media had said.
“My condolences to the families of the young girl killed and the injured students. We cannot trivialize this kind of tragedy and access to weapons in our society,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reacted on X.
School attacks have increased this year in Brazil.
The previous one took place on October 10, when a teenager was killed and three others were stabbed in a facility in the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil.
The deadliest attack was the one in which four children aged four to seven were hacked to death by a 25-year-old in a nursery in April, in Blumenau, in the state of Santa Catarina (South).
The Lula government has put in place measures to contain this violence in schools, including monitoring content disseminated on social networks.
“The cybercrime laboratory of the Ministry of Justice has been seized to help the Sao Paulo police deepen the investigation” into Monday’s attack, Minister of Justice Flavio Dino assured X, while displaying his “solidarity” towards the families of the victims.