RIO DE JANEIRO, April 7. At least 13 people have died and 22 others injured in an attack by an alleged former student of a school in Rio de Janeiro, according to the Fire Department, quoted by the official Agencia Brasil. The attacker died after the shooting, but whether he was shot by police or committed suicide.
The dead man broke in the local school Tasso da Silveira, located in the Realengo neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro, after 0800 hours (13:00 to mainland Spain). The attack lasted about five minutes, as some witnesses have said. "We do not know if the person had been killed or committed suicide, nor know the reason that led to this act of madness that caused this tragedy," said the official Ibis Pereira, of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro, told the press.
The gunman, a school alumnus, has been identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, has confirmed the municipal secretary of Education, Claudia Costin, told Agencia Brasil. Menezes de Oliveira had left a letter in which he informs the reasons that led him to threaten students and school officials, has revealed its part, the deputy prefect of the western area of Rio de Janeiro, Edmar Teixeira.
In the letter, religious content, Menezes de Oliveira confesses that she is HIV positive, Teixeira explained, without disclosing further details of the text to be analyzed by the courts. 
The dead man broke in the local school Tasso da Silveira, located in the Realengo neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro, after 0800 hours (13:00 to mainland Spain). The attack lasted about five minutes, as some witnesses have said. "We do not know if the person had been killed or committed suicide, nor know the reason that led to this act of madness that caused this tragedy," said the official Ibis Pereira, of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro, told the press.
The gunman, a school alumnus, has been identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, has confirmed the municipal secretary of Education, Claudia Costin, told Agencia Brasil. Menezes de Oliveira had left a letter in which he informs the reasons that led him to threaten students and school officials, has revealed its part, the deputy prefect of the western area of Rio de Janeiro, Edmar Teixeira.
In the letter, religious content, Menezes de Oliveira confesses that she is HIV positive, Teixeira explained, without disclosing further details of the text to be analyzed by the courts.
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