A 13-year-old student stabs his teacher to death, injures five people at a high school in Brazil

By Andre Penner -

A 13-year-old student killed his 71-year-old teacher with a dagger and injured three other teachers and two classmates this Monday at a school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to Brazilian authorities.

The five people who were injured at the Thomazia Montoro school were taken to a hospital in stable condition.

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The alleged attacker was detained by the military police, who are investigating the case, reported Tarcisio Freitas, the governor of the largest city in Brazil, through his social networks.

"Our efforts are focused on helping the injured and comforting the families

," the governor wrote.

Silvia Palmieri (left), mother of a teacher who survived a stabbing attack at the Thomazia Montorosale school, is comforted by a friend, Monday, March 27, 2023, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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A student who spoke to reporters outside the school said the suspect had been in a fight with another student last week and the late teacher had separated them.

"This kid told the other kid that he looked like a squirrel and a rat and he didn't like it and they started fighting," said Gabriel Livramento, 13, from the same classroom as the suspect.

He added that his classmate did not like the way his teacher had intervened to separate them and said that he was going to do something about it.

The attacker entered the institute on Monday wearing a skull mask and stabbed his teacher in the back, causing injuries to her head and torso, Livramento explained.

The entire classroom ran out after that, he added.