Tag: Shooting

• Thursday, March 14th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  Ten killed in school shooting in Sao Paulo: six children, two teachers and two attackers

  

  Two armed men wearing face masks entered a Brazilian elementary school on Wednesday and shot and killed at least six children who were on their snack breaks, as well as two school officials, before fatally turning their guns on themselves, police said.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  A shooting in Los Angeles takes several victims

  

  A shooting with several victims has been recorded this Saturday morning in a bowling alley in the town of Torrance, in the county of Los Angeles (USA), police said.

• Wednesday, December 12th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  Gunman kills at least six at Brazilian church, then commits suicide

  

  A gunman later identified as 49-year-old Euler Fernando Grandolpho opened fire Tuesday against parishioners during midday mass at the Campinas Cathedral (95 km northwest of Sao Paulo), killing at least six of them and wounding several others, it was reported. The assailant eventually took his own life.

• Monday, April 30th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Two supporters of Lula da Silva injured with gunshots in Curitiba

  

  A man was seriously wounded early on Saturday when a gunman opened fire on a vigil in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, where former president Lula da Silva is serving time for corruption, his party said.

• Monday, January 29th 2018 - 10:50 UTC

  Drugs related shootings in northeast Brazil kill 14 in a nightclub

  

  At least 14 people were killed in a shootout at a nightclub in Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil, officials said on Saturday. “We can confirm 14 deaths,” Andre Costa, security secretary for the state of Ceara - of which Fortaleza is the capital - told a press conference.