2011年4月8日星期五

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazil buries school kids killed by gunman (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT

A relative mourns over the body of 14-year-old Luiza Paula da Silveira Machado during her funeral at the Jardim da Saudade cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday April 8, 2011. Brazilian families began burying the 12 children gunned down in the halls of their elementary school Thursday. Luiza is one of ten girls and two boys between the ages of 12 and 15 who were killed by 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira, who shot and killed himself after being confronted by police.  (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Parents screamed in anguish and clung to coffins Friday as families buried most of the 12 children gunned down in the halls of their elementary school. A black police helicopter dropped white rose petals over mourners and a nation was left struggling for answers.


Rio buries school shooting dead, Pope 'appalled' (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 01:03 PM PDT

Relatives and friends cry during the funeral of Laryssa Silva Martins (14) killed at a school in Rio de Janeiro, where a former student opened fire yesterday. Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 24, shot 10 children and wounded 12 others -- many in the head -- and only stopped firing when he was shot in the leg by a police officer and turned one of his revolvers on himself, officials said.(AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)AFP - Grief-stricken Brazilians on Friday buried their children slain in a school massacre in Rio, as the nation struggled to comprehend the ghastly act of a suicidal young man.


Brazil gunman kills 12, self at Rio school (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT

Police stand guard outside of Tasso da Silveira school where a gunman opened fire on children in the Realengo neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro April 7, 2011. REUTERS/Sergio MoraesReuters - A Brazilian gunman killed 12 children at a Rio de Janeiro school and then himself, police said on Thursday, shocking the South American nation that has never seen such an incident before.


Brazil shooting said to be first school massacre in nation's history (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:48 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Brazil school shooting this morning in the gritty Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Realengo left at least 11 students dead and a nation in shock over its first-ever school massacre.
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