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Two former pupils shot dead eight people, most of them students and staff, at a high school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday before turning their weapons on themselves, authorities said.
The two assailants burst into the school grounds in the early morning, armed with a .38 caliber revolver and a "medieval weapon that looked like a bow and arrows," military police Colonel Marcelo Sales said.
After shooting at students in the yard, the killers headed to the language center where several pupils were hiding and "committed suicide in a corridor," he said.
Brazil is one of the most violent countries in the world, and the victims in this case were five students aged 15 to 17, two school officials aged 38 and 59, and a 51-year-old carwash owner who was shot by the attackers before they arrived at the school, said Sao Paulo's Public Security Secretary Joao Pires de Campos.
In US also the situation is the same. A recent poll in Februry showed that most Americans were frustrated by the country lax gun laws and have little confidence their lawmakers will take action, according to a new poll released ahead of the one-year anniversary of the country’s deadliest high school shooting.
The survey showed that support for gun restrictions has risen since the poll started asking about gun control in 2012.
There are more than 30,000 gun-related deaths annually in the United States, most of them in the form of suicide.
The United States regularly sees shooting incidents. On October 1, 2017, at least 58 people were killed and over 500 others injured when a gunman opened fire at a music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Source: AFP
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