Rio de Janeiro school shooting
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rio-de-janeiro-school-shooting-187-8031459
title:
Rio de Janeiro school shooting
text:
On the morning of 7 April 2011, 12 students aged between 13 and 15 years old were killed and 22 others seriously wounded by Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23 years old, who entered the Tasso da Silveira Municipal School, an elementary school in Realengo on the western fringe of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was armed with two revolvers. The killer was intercepted by the police, but committed suicide before being arrested. It was the first non-gang school shooting with a sizable number of casualtie
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Mass murder in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro_school_shooting
date created:
2011-04-07T13:51:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T10:01:21Z
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