Man Attacks Brazil Preschool, Kills Four Children

A 25-year-old attacker burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children on Wednesday with a bladed weapon before turning himself in to police, authorities have said.

Police and government officials in the state of Santa Catarina said the man had also wounded four victims at the private preschool, known as the Good Shepherd Center, in the morning attack in the city of Blumenau.

He then handed himself in at a state police station and was arrested, police said in a statement.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the attack as a “monstrosity.”

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“There is no greater pain than a family that loses children or grandchildren, even more so when it is in an act of violence against innocent and defenceless children,” he wrote on Twitter.

“My thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ families.”

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Images from the scene on Brazilian news site G1 showed emergency workers and police outside the preschool, as dozens of people waited behind a security cordon.

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