Brazil Shooter Kills 11 Children at Rio de Janeiro School
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At least 11 children were killed and 13 injured when a man opened fire in a Rio de Janeiro elementary public school this morning. The attacker killed himself as police searched the building.
Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a 23-year-old former student, carried out the attack at the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School in Realengo, on the western outskirts of Rio, police Colonel Djalma Beltrame told Globo TV. Oliveira gained access to the school carrying two revolvers in a backpack by posing as a lecturer, police said.