Former students and suicide bombers: who were the young perpetrators of the massacre of the school of San Pablo

The Brazilians Luiz Henrique de Castro, 25, and Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, 17, they entered a primary school in São Paulo this Wednesday with face covered with masks and killed at least six children who took their snacks, as well as two school officials, before committing suicide, according to the local police.

And before the attack at the school Raul Brasil, the young badbadins fired and They killed a worker in a nearby car wash. João Camilo Pires de Campos, Secretary of Public Security of San Pablo, reported that This victim would be a family member of one of the attackers.

Marcelo Salles, commander of the police force in Sao Paulo, said the suicide bombers had used at least a 38 caliber pistol, homemade bombs, axes, a crossbow, a bow and arrows.

The police arrived eight minutes after the shooting started and did not confront them because they had already committed suicide, Salles said.

A homemade video taken during the shooting and broadcast by Globe TV He showed the children screaming and running while the gunshots were heard.

Seventeen others, mostly schoolchildren, were shot and several were seriously injured, police said.

Home security cameras located near the school showed children climbing and jumping over the white wall around the education center and running in the streets shouting for help.

Another shooting was recorded some 500 meters shortly before the incidents occurred at the Raul Brasil school, but it was not yet clear whether the two events were related.

Incidents involving weapons at school are not common in Brazil, despite the fact that the country records the highest number of annual homicides in the world. The latest gun attack in a school was held in 2011, when 12 children died in the hands of a former student of Rio de Janeiro.

Even though gun control laws are very strict in Brazil, it is not difficult to buy a firearm illegally.

With Reuters information