At least 13 people, both children and adults, were killed Thursday in a school shooting in Rio de Janeiro, CNN affiliate Record TV reported, citing civil police.

The incident happened at the Tasso da Oliveira Municipal School.

According to Record TV, a 24- or 25-year-old man entered the school in the morning armed with two handguns and opened fire on children and school personnel.

As the man fled, he ran into military police who were responding to the scene. There was a confrontation, and the man was shot, the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported. The man and the injured victims were taken to a hospital, the agency reported.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/07...olroom/?hpt=T2

UPDATE: 11 deaths confirmed, 17 hurt.

So sad, what a tragedy

rest in peace

This makes me so sad. How could there be sickos like this living on Earth?

This is so sad.

And this happened in Brazil I think this kind of stuff rarely happens in Latin America...

Rest in peace Rio is such a beautiful city

So sad. RIP.

So sad

why cant people just come together and be atleast nice to one another. japan just got another earthquake less than an hour ago.

This is really sad, why are there so many psychos on this earth

We were talking about current events in one of my classes today and this was brought up. Such a shame

SMH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's sad i can figure out, how a human can kills a child it's not fair, and all those murders out there killing over latin american and the law just sitting their big fat asses down..

http://video.latam.msn.com/watch/vid...rasil/ou0jseox

this video is just horrible