Inside Nursery School Security Guard Sprayed Children With Alcohol Then Burned Them Alive
They were murdered by a security guard at the school who set them on fire before dying from his own injuries.
The tragedy happened at the Innocent People nursery in Janauba, a city in Brazil.
Four children died at the scene while another two succumbed to their injuries at hospital.
Around 50 people were taken to hospital, 10 of them were in a serious condition and the mayor has decreed seven days of mourning.
The guard, who was aged about 50 and identified as Damiao Soares, died in hospital several hours after the incident, which left him with burns all over his body
Bruno Ataide Santos, director of the local hospital, saidAbout 80 children were in the nursery school when the attack occurred, prompting terrified parents to rush to the school, where they found one classroom reduced to ashes.
As the creche is near our house we heard noise and rushed over,’ Nelson de Jesus Silva, the father of one victim, told Globonews TV.
‘My little girl was so good, so smart,’ he said of his dead daughter Ana Clara Ferreira.
Grief also struck Jane Kelly, the mother of Juan Miguel Soare
‘I was thinking of changing nursery schools because we are preparing to move. I woke him up early to bring him here and when I saw him again he was dead in the hospital,’ Kelly said between sobs.
The dead children were aged four, the G1 news site reported.
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