Man armed with hatchet kills four children at nursery in Brazil

The man turned himself in at a police station and did not appear to have any connection with the school.

An ambulance is parked outside the private daycare centre in Blumenau, Santa Catarina state (Denner Ovidio/Futura Press via AP)

A man armed with a hatchet has killed four children and wounded at least five others at a nursery in Brazil, authorities said.

The state’s firefighter corps said the assailant jumped over one of the centre’s walls to get inside. The dead were aged between five and seven.