The assault happened in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina and left a number of kids lifeless and injured.

A person armed with a small axe has attacked a daycare in southern Brazil, killing 4 younger kids in a tragedy that Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva known as a “monstrosity”.

The assault occurred on Wednesday when a 25-year-old man scaled the wall of a personal daycare in Blumenau, a metropolis within the state of Santa Catarina. As soon as inside, he killed 4 kids estimated to be between the ages of 4 and 7 and injured a number of others, in accordance with the native Hospital Santo Antonio.

“A tragedy like that is unacceptable, an absurd act of hate and cowardice … an act of violence towards harmless and defenceless kids,” President Lula mentioned in a Twitter publish.

Police say that the attacker has been arrested. The occasion takes place greater than per week after a 13-year-old scholar carried out a stabbing assault in a Sao Paulo faculty that killed a instructor and left 5 others wounded.

Particulars concerning the variety of kids injured in Wednesday’s assault stay unsure. The Related Press mentioned that 5 wounded kids had been taken to the hospital, in accordance with Blumenau’s mayor, Mario Hildebrandt.

The information companies Reuters and AFP, in the meantime, said that 4 kids had been injured, citing the Hospital Santo Antonio and native officers, respectively.

Footage on TV networks confirmed mother and father sobbing exterior of the Cantinho do Bom Pastor daycare centre. A police detective informed tv reporters that investigators would seek for a possible motive.

Hildebrandt mentioned that courses had been suspended and that town would declare a mourning interval.

The assault is the second of its variety to happen in Santa Catarina, the place a suspect wielding a knife killed three babies and two adults at a daycare centre in 2021.

In line with a report from researchers led by Daniel Cara, an schooling professor on the College of Sao Paulo, 16 assaults or violent episodes occurred in colleges between 2000 and 2022.

“There is no such thing as a higher ache than that of a household who loses its kids or grandchildren, much more so in an act of violence towards harmless and defenseless children,” Lula wrote Wednesday on Twitter.

“My ideas and prayers are the households of victims and the neighborhood of Blumenau within the face of the monstrosity of what occurred.”