A gunman shot at three of his classmates on Wednesday, seriously injuring one of them Sobral, in the north-east of the country, official sources reported.
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The three wounded youths, one of whom was shot in the head, were rescued and taken to the Santa Casa hospital in Sobral, a municipality in Ceará state, a spokesman for Ceará’s security secretariat told Efe.
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The 15-year-old teenager suspected of attempted murder has been arrestedaccording to a statement released by the same agency.
According to the source, the young man was carrying a firearm registered in someone else’s name, registered with a hunter-shooter-gatherer permit.
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after capturing, The young man was questioned and stated that “he had committed the act intentionally because he felt harassed by the victims”.who are said to have been his classmates at the Professora Carmosina Ferreira Gomes school where the events took place.
Last September, in Bahia state, also in the northeast of the country, a 14-year-old boy armed with a revolver and two knives broke into another public school he had not attended and killed a disabled student.
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The teenager was shot by a third person while attempting to escape and has been in police custody at a hospital in the municipality of Barreiras for the past month.
2019, Two former students entered a school in the city of Suzano, about 60 kilometers from Sao Paulokilled five students and two workers and left a dozen wounded before both took their own lives.
The worst tragedy to happen in a Brazilian school happened in 2011 when twelve students at a school in Realengo, a modest neighborhood on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, were shot and killed by a 24-year-old man who committed suicide while he was there was intercepted by the police. .
EFE
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