A teacher and six students were injured in two new episodes of teenagers attacking schools in Brazil this week for several days in a row, first in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, and then in a small town in the interior of the state of Goiás. In both cases, the victims received minor injuries, and the attackers were detained.
In the first case, a 15-year-old student entered the Colégio Adventista de Manaus in Amazonas this Monday with a knife and stabbed a teacher and two students. He was neutralized before he could injure other people, and was taken away by the military police, and the victims were given medical assistance right at the school.
On Tuesday, another teenager, only 13, also took a knife to his school in Santa Teresa de Goias, in the northern state of Goias, and stabbed to death three classmates. The school authorities managed to immobilize him and call the police, and the injured were taken to a local hospital, but they are not in danger of death.
Since these two attacks, there have been four episodes of violence in Brazil’s educational institutions in the last 15 days alone. In the other two, unfortunately, the results were much more tragic than in Manaus and Goias.
15 days ago, a 13-year-old student killed a teacher and injured two and three other students at a public high school in western Sao Paulo.
Last week, a 25-year-old man broke into the Cantinho Bom Pastor Kindergarten in Blumenau, a tourist town in the state of Santa Catarina, and killed four children aged between four and seven with an axe, wounded four others and was later taken safely to the police station and surrendered .
The central and regional governments of the states where the attacks have taken place over the past two weeks have taken additional security measures and set up training teams to strengthen the protection of students, teachers and school staff, including by hiring armed guards. And it was the warnings and security measures put in place since then that prevented this week’s attacks from having a more serious impact, as staff and teachers were already alert for signs of possible violence and acted quickly.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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