The two gunmen who opened fire at a school in south-eastern Brazil and killed at least five teenagers were former pupils, officials say. The shooting happened at about 09:30 local time (12:30 GMT ...

Santos is also unusual for a school shooter as she is a female. Figures from Statista suggest that since 1982 only four mass shootings have been carried out by women, while the figure for men is 145.

“This mode of violence has implanted itself in Brazil,” Dino explained A 16-year-old female pupil was killed Monday at the Professor Helena Kolody School in the city of Cambé in the Brazilian ...

School shootings are rare in Brazil, even though the country is one of the world's most violent, with more annual homicides than any other. The last major school shooting was in 2011, when 12 ...

The gunman, carrying a revolver and a pistol, rose from his seat and started shooting randomly, Brazil's O Globo News reports. He then killed himself in front of the altar before police could ...