Two masked men armed with a gun, knives, axes and crossbows descended on a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing five students and two adults before taking their own lives, authorities said.
Two former pupils shot dead eight people, most of them students and staff, at a high school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday before turning their weapons on themselves, authorities said.
The two assailants burst into the school grounds in the early morning, armed with a .38 calibre revolver and a “medieval weapon that looked like a bow and arrows,” military police Colonel Marcelo Sales said.
After shooting at students in the yard, the killers headed to the language centre where several pupils were hiding and “committed suicide in a corridor,” he said.