Machete Killings and Suicide Attempt: The Minute-By-Minute Nursery School Massacre in Brazil

Brazilian justice is investigating the motives for the massacre that took place this Tuesday in a kindergarten in the city of Desire, In the state of Santa Catarina, where an 18-year-old man killed two women and three babies with machetes.

As the hours passed, new details of the brutal murders recorded inside the Aquarela facility emerged, which the teenager entered in the morning and executed his victims with a knife which was later seized by the police.

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Force sources reported arriving at the scene at 10:35 a.m. (local time) after receiving several neighbor alert calls, who reported the presence of a young man armed with a machete who entered the kindergarten and attacked the staff.

The adolescent, whose identity has not transcended, he first killed a teacher who was at the entrance to the square. After chasing her into one of the classrooms, he stabbed her to death and then continued with babies. Finally, attacked an educational agent who was in the building at the time.

According to international media, at the time of the attack there were several dozen children in the garden, who were forced into hiding by the authorities. Even like that, a fourth child was slightly injured.

“I heard the calls for help”he told the news agency AFP an employee who was near the establishment at the time of the attack. And he added: “I went out and saw my companions asking for help: please call the police, an armed guy came in and is killing the children,” he said. he pleaded. “However, the authorities arrived too late and could not prevent the massacre.

After finishing the murders, the teenager self-inflicted injuries in the neck, abdomen and thorax, for which he was transferred in a very serious condition to the hospital.

During the site visit, the municipal secretary of Education, Gisela Hermann, expressed: “We walked in and saw a horror scene. Boys on the floor blood everywhere “.

As reported by local media Or balloon, the murdered women were identified as the teacher Keli Adriane Aniecevski, 30 years old – who died on the spot – and the agent Mirla Renner, of 20. During this time, the identity of the other victims is kept confidential.

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Local media assured that the garden was half empty after what no more than 35% allowed presence in schools due to the pandemic, in a region which has continued to collapse since February with high occupancy of intensive care beds.

The city is located almost 150 kilometers from Bernardo de Irigoyen, a missionary town that is part of the so-called “dry border” with Brazil.

Regarding the murderer, the local police chief indicated that “there is hospitalized “ in serious condition as a result of the cuts he himself made.