RIO DE JANEIRO — A former pupil entered a college after which started capturing in Brazil’s southern Parana state Monday, killing a 15-year-old lady and severely wounding one other teen, a spokesperson for the town of Cambé informed The Associated Press by cellphone.

The gunman, aged 20 or 21, entered the Professora Helena Kolody state college purportedly to retrieve some paperwork, spokesperson Thiago Mossini mentioned.

Once contained in the constructing, the person fired at the very least a dozen pictures earlier than being restrained by a college worker, Mossini mentioned. The alleged shooter was later arrested by police, Mossini mentioned.

The wounded pupil, a 14-year-old, was reported in important situation at a hospital.

Images circulating on TV and social media confirmed dozens of scholars gathered outdoors the college, some crying, as an ambulance approached the gate.

Brazil has seen nearly two dozen assaults or violent episodes in colleges since 2000, half of them within the final 14 months.

On April 5, an assault at a daycare middle killed 4 kids and prompted the federal government to launch an unprecedented crackdown. Some 3,400 law enforcement officials carried out a nationwide sweep to spherical up a number of hundred folks accused of spreading hate speech or stoking college violence.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned on his official Twitter account Monday: “Yet another young life taken away by the hatred and violence we can no longer tolerate within our schools and society.”

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