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Eugene

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Thu Oct 5, 2017, 08:33 PM Oct 2017

Brazil nursery attack: Children set on fire in Minas Gerais

Source: BBC

Brazil nursery attack: Children set on fire in Minas Gerais

6 October 2017 Latin America & Caribbean

Four children and a teacher have been killed in Brazil after a security guard allegedly set fire to a childcare centre.

The man also set himself alight at the building in the remote town of Janauba, Minas Gerais state, police said.

Video footage showed chaotic scenes outside, as parents cried and panicked as the news broke.

Twenty-five people, mostly children aged four and five, are being treated for burns in local hospitals.

Some of the patients may still need to be airlifted to a specialised burns unit in the state capital, Belo Horizonte.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41515503
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