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| Muslim Fanatic Slaughters Children In School In Rio de Janeiro Suburb | |
| 2011-04-07 | |
According to a preliminary police report, the attacker - a 24- year-old former student at the school - was among the dead after shooting himself in the head. He attacked Tasso da Silveira school, where some 400 students ages 9-14 were in classes. the attacker was friendly as he went into the school, chatting with administrators and teachers and asking for permission to address the children. When he reached the third floor of the building, the suspect entered one of the classrooms and started to shoot at students, killing nine girls and one boy. The attacker apparently committed suicide upon being chased by a police officer who had been called in by a student who managed to escape the building. Police stressed, however, that there was no concrete evidence that the attack had either a religious or a political motive. "It is a massacre, a true massacre," said Roni de Macedo, a fireman who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting began and dragged eight seriously injured children from the school. "There is blood on the walls, blood on the chairs. There are 15 to 20 dead I think," said De Macedo, who was covered in blood. "I've never seen anything like this. It's like something in the United States." | |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 A convert? An immigrant or son of immigrants from the Middle East/Asia? |
| Posted by: DJ Curtis C 2011-04-07 23:52 |
| #2 Think the Brazilians will drone on about how they brought in on themselves and anyway this isn't really Islam (which is Peace, of course)? Me neither. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-04-07 20:01 |
| #1 Brazilian people I know are extremely family oriented. My heart goes out to the families of these children. |
| Posted by: wr 2011-04-07 15:45 |