US EditionAt Least Two Students Killed and Three Injured in the Attack on a School in Brazil
The shooting in Sobral left two dead and three injured amid rising drug gang violence; Ceara's homicide rate rose 11% to 37.5 per 100,000 in 2024, officials said.
- Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were shot dead in Northeastern Brazil after gunmen opened fire in a school parking lot, according to the state government.
- Three other teens were wounded in the shooting incident in Sobral, Ceara state.
- Ceara Governor Elmano de Freitas expressed his "deep sorrow" on X about the "intolerable" violence.
- The suspects remain on the run, and authorities have not provided details on a possible motive.
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Two Students Killed and Three Wounded in Brazil School Shooting
On September 25, two armed men on a motorcycle opened fire into the courtyard of Escola Estadual Professor Luís Felipe in Sobral, Ceará. They killed two 17-year-old students and wounded three classmates during recess. Witnesses reported eight shots. Officials found drug packaging and a precision scale at the scene. They now suspect gang rivalries drove […]
The students had gone out to the courtyard to enjoy the interval between classrooms when two men arrived by bike at a high school in the city of Sobral, in northeastern Brazil. Flanked the door, they opened fire, as heard in the recording of a surveillance camera that captured the killers when they arrived and fled. The shots killed two 16 and 17 year old teenage students on Thursday and wounded three others, according to the authorities. The mi…
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Two teens killed in shooting at Brazil school
Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were shot dead Thursday after gunmen opened fire on a school parking lot in northeastern Brazil, the state government said in a statement.
At least two students have died and three others have been injured this Thursday after a shooting attack on a school in the state of Ceará (north-east of Brazil), according to preliminary information reported by official sources.The shooting took place at Luiz Felipe State School, located in the Campo dos Velhos neighborhood of the municipality of Sobral, during a break.«The suspects fired from the school sidewalk, reaching the victims in the ca…
Two men opened fire on the school floor during the school term. Two 16- and 17-year-olds died and three other students were injured.
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