Brazil: At least five dead, including three children, in a machete attack at a nursery

The municipal secretary of Education of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, in the south of the country, has reported that five people have died, three of them minors, after being stabbed in a kindergarten in the town of Saudades. explained the Police, the attacker is a teenager who would have entered the center without permission, located in the center of the municipality. The G1 news portal has clarified that the young man would have used a machete. The regional delegate of Chapecó, Ricardo Newton Casagrande, has indicated that the young man entered the Aquarela nursery, which is attended by children between six months and two years of age. The municipal secretary of Education, Gisela Hermann, has expressed that the scene was of "terror". I managed to get into school. (…) The room was locked, they didn't let us in, ”he said. The other two victims are two teachers from the center. According to sources available to the Brazilian press, the perpetrator of the attack was seriously transferred to a hospital in the neighboring city of Pinhalzinho, after he attempted suicide. The Brazilian police have deployed a police operation around the hospital. , after a score of residents of the town have moved to the center and threatened to break into the facilities: “The hospital had to be protected. Teams of the Military Police, the Fire Brigade and the Civil Police are standing at the entrance of the hospital ”, explained the director of the center, Silvio Mocelin, reports 'Época'.