Man kills four children with hatchet at daycare centre in Brazil
A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare centre on Wednesday in Brazil, killing four children and wounding at least five others, authorities said.
The assailant turned himself in at a police station and did not appear to have any connection with the centre, which offers nursery services, preschool education and after-school activities. The dead were between the ages of five and seven, authorities said.
Authorities were searching for a motive, the police detective leading the investigation, Ronnie Esteves, told television reporters in Blumenau, a city of 366,000 in southern Brazil, near the Atlantic coast.
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Images broadcast on networks showed weeping parents outside the private daycare centre called Cantinho do Bom Pastor.
The attack took place on the center’s playground, according to the local affiliate of television network Globo. NSC, the affiliate, showed a photo of the suspect with a closely shaved head. Police have yet to confirm his identity.
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