The New Zealand Herald

Brazil shooting

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Two masked men armed with a gun, knives, axes and crossbows entered a school in southern Brazil yesterday and killed five students and two adults and injured nine others, before one killed the other and then himself, authoritie­s said. The men, identified as former students at the school in a suburb of Sao Paulo, also shot and killed the owner of a used car business nearby before launching the attack on the school, authoritie­s said. Authoritie­s identified the attackers as 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Henrique de Castro.

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