Buenos Aires Herald 
Two students died after a school shooting in Brazil’s southern city of Cambe on Monday. The first victim was a female student confirmed dead at the scene, while the second teenager was shot in the head and rushed to hospital in critical condition. The University Hospital of Londrina said on Tuesday that he had died after going into cardiac arrest in the early hours of the day.
Local media reports say the two victims, Karoline Verri Alves, 17, and Luan Augusto, 16, were dating.
Police have arrested the suspected perpetrator, a 21-year- former student of the Professora Helena Kolody public school. The government said he entered its premises saying he wanted to request his school records.
Parana Governor Ratinho Junior has declared three days of mourning.
School attacks in Brazil have been on the rise. In April, a man armed with a small axe climbed over a wall into a creche in southern Brazil and killed four children. In a Sao Paulo school a 13-year-old student stabbed a teacher to death and wounded five others in March.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said it was crucial that the country finds a way to build peace in schools.
“Another young life taken by hatred and violence that we can no longer tolerate inside our schools and in society,” Lula said in a Twitter post.
-Reuters
