A teenager shot two staff members and wounded two others, including a student, at a school in northeastern Brazil on Tuesday, prompting panicked students to try to escape over a wall, authorities and a witness said.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the attack at the Sao Jose Institute in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre state, the local government said in a statement.
Eduardo Rodrigues Cavalcante, who works as a receptionist at a hotel near the school, said when the shooting started, some students tried to jump the wall that separates the school from the hotel.
“The wall is six meters high, and only one person was able to jump and run to the hotel. Other people were left on the roof of the school trying to escape,” the 19-year-old receptionist said, adding that she heard “a lot of gunshots and screams”.
Pictures released by one of the country’s media outlets showed a woman being carried out on a stretcher and people crying and hugging outside the school.
It is not yet clear if the attacker was a current or former student at the school.
