Ten people, including the gunmen, were killed in total, Sao Paulo police said. Police arrived eight minutes after the shooting started and did not confront the gunmen, who had by then fatally shot themselves, he said. The last major school shooting was in 2011, when 12 children were shot dead by a former pupil in Rio de Janeiro. Police said the two men, who they did not believe were former students at the school, entered the building and started shooting at about 9.30am local time. Another shooting took place about 500 metres from the Raul Brasil school shortly before the killings, but it was not yet clear if the two incidents were related.

Source: The Irish Times March 13, 2019 16:43 UTC