Besides the five students, the dead included a teacher and a school administrator, said Joao Camilo Pires de Campos, the state's public secretary. The public school, Raul Brasil Professor (translated in English), has more than 1,600 students from elementary to high school grades, teachers gathered outside said. 'We heard 3 pops'Students gathered outside the school recounted harrowing attacks and seeing several bodies lying in pools of blood. Horacio Pereira Nunes, a retiree whose house is next to the school, said he began hearing shots around 10 a.m."Then a lot of kids started running out, all screaming," he said. The last major school shooting was in 2011, when 12 children were shot dead by a former pupil in Rio de Janeiro.

Source: CBC News March 13, 2019 15:45 UTC