One of the kindergarten teachers in the city of Blumenau said that he locked a room where babies were found for try to protect them of the assailant who killed four children with a white weapon this Wednesday.

Simone Aparecida, one of the nursery teachers, told a local television that it was alerted by a colleague and that he locked up a baby group in charge in the bathroom to avoid being seen by the assailant, who, according to her, headed to the playground, where some minors made a round of conversation.

The attacker, whose identity is unknown, jumped over the school wall and began randomly attacking the children ( REUTERS / Vinicius Bretzke )
The attacker, whose identity is unknown, jumped over the school wall and began randomly attacking the children ( REUTERS / Vinicius Bretzke )
The event occurred around 09.00 local time ( 12.00 GMT ) in kindergarten and nursery school Cantinho Bom Pastor, a private center, where there was 40 children inside.

The nursery where one person killed at least 4 minors
The attacker, whose identity is unknown, jumped over the school wall and began to randomly attack children with a small ax, according to the official version.

The fatalities are three children and a girl up to seven years old, according to local media.

The assailant, who turned himself in to the authorities after the attack, also injured at least three other minors, as reported by the Police and the Fire Department.

The Word of Officer Diogo, of the Fire Department of Blumenau
Apparently when he saw the teachers’ reaction, fled jumping again the wall through which he had entered and went to a Military Police headquarters to surrender. Since then, he has remained silent.

At least four children killed in an attack on a nursery in Brazil
Brazilian authorities have opened an investigation to clarify the reasons for the attack.

The Blumenau Mayor’s Office, a quiet municipality of about 400,000 inhabitants in the state of Santa Catarina, Known for being a place where German immigrants settled, he suspended classes in the public network during this Wednesday and Thursday, and recommended the same to private centers.

The Governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello, decreed official mourning of three days in the region.

Unanimous condemnation
Reactions to this new attack on a school came from all political sectors of the country.

The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was one of the first to speak out on this new tragedy that qualified as “ monstrosity ”.

Women hug outside the nursery ( REUTERS / Vinicius Bretzke )
Women hug outside the nursery ( REUTERS / Vinicius Bretzke )
The president of the ruling party Workers’ Party ( PT ), the deputy Gleisi Hoffmann, urged the Lula government to create in an “ urgent way ” a plan to “ contain hatred and violence in schools ”.

From the ranks of the opposition there were also condemnation messages and regret for the episode.

“ How sad this tragedy in a nursery in Blumenau. May God comfort the hearts of the families of the victims ”, said the senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.

The also senator Cyrus Nogueira, a close ally of Bolsonaro, affirmed to feel “ a mixture of immense sadness and indignation ”.

Second attack in 10 days
In recent months, they have been registered various attacks on schools in Brazil, with white or firearms.

The Military Police remains behind a cordon on the perimeter of the nursery. ( REUTERS / Denner Ovid )
The Military Police remains behind a cordon on the perimeter of the nursery. ( REUTERS / Denner Ovid )
Blumenau’s attack occurs ten days after another that took place in a school in Sao Paulo, where a 13-year-old teenager stabbed to death a teacher and injured four other people – three teachers and one student.

Also, on November 25 a 16-year-old teenager shot four people dead in two successive attacks on two nearby schools in Aracruz, in the state of the Holy Spirit ( southeast ).

Two months earlier, a man armed with a revolver and two knives invaded a civic-military school and killed a student with a disability, in the state of Bay ( northeast ).

Already on March 13, 2019 two former students entered a school in the city of Suzano, About 60 kilometers from Sao Paulo, they murdered five students and two workers, leaving a dozen wounded, before they both killed themselves.

( With EFE information )