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Man kills four children in axe attack at Brazilian daycare

At least four children have been killed with four others injured when a 25-year-old man attacked a pre-school in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina on Wednesday April 5, local police and a hospital said.

The 25-year-old man, named locally as Luiz Henrique de Lima, reportedly arrived at the pre-school in Blumenau, southern Brazil, on a motorbike.

He then scaled the wall of a private daycare in Blumenau, a city in the state of Santa Catarina. Read the full story here ▶