Three students were injured in an attack perpetrated by a 13-year-old boy at a school in the state of Goiás, Brazil. The attack was carried out with a knife at the Marcos Aurélio public school in the municipality of Santa Tereza de Goias. The young man has been arrested, and initial investigations indicate that he was being bullied at school.
The police delegate explained that the minor entered the center with a ski mask, a knife, an axe, and other materials and threw a firecracker in a classroom to make his classmates go out into the hallway, where he began to stab them. He then chased a female teacher, but was eventually stopped by a cleaning assistant. This attack occurred only six days after a 25-year-old man killed four minors with an axe in a daycare center. In addition, on March 27, a 71-year-old teacher was stabbed to death by one of her students, also 13 years old, at a school in Sao Paulo.
These attacks are a sign of the increase in violence in schools in Brazil and have put the authorities on alert. The government announced the creation of a task force to combat school violence, which will have 150 million reais (about US$ 30 million) to investigate suspicious movements through the networks.