Boy kills 3 at school in Argentina

[Catriel]

A 15 years old boy entered the classroom this morning with a gun and and started to shot to the walls and then to the other peoples.
4 of them died (3 girls and a boy) and at least 5 are injured in the hospital (some media says 9 injured)
3 of them are identified as Sandra Núñez, Evangelina Miranda y Federico Ponce.


I have find the article in a english language media:

Last Update: Wednesday, September 29, 2004. 9:20am (AEST)

Argentine teen shoots dead four classmates


A 15-year-old youth opened fire on classmates at his school in southern Argentina, killing four students and injuring five others, authorities said.

The shooting happened at the Islas Malvinas school in the town of Carmen de Patagones, some 800 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, police said.

The boy, said to have been an introvert, took his father's 9 millimetre handgun into the class after a daily ceremony for the raising of the national flag, police said.

He began shooting as students waited for a teacher to arrive, police and witnesses said.

The boy's father had the weapon as a member of Argentina's border and river police.

Three of the five wounded students were hospitalised in serious condition, while the other two were released, officials said.

Source: ABC News Online
www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1209264.htm

[Catriel]

From Reuters:
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=18&u=/nm/20040928/ts_nm/crime_argentina_dc



Argentine Teen Kills Three in School Shooting


Tue Sep 28, 2:06 PM ET

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - A shy 15-year-old Argentine killed
three fellow students and wounded six on Tuesday in a school shooting that shocked Argentines unaccustomed to such violence.


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The shooting took place in a middle-class
neighborhood in Carmen de Patagones, a town 620 miles south of Buenos Aires and gateway to the remote Patagonia region.

"Right after the flag was raised (to begin school), the boy went to the classroom and began shooting," Mario Oporto, director of education in Buenos Aires province, told local radio.

Oporto said four teen-agers died in the attack, but a local police spokesman later said only three students had been killed. Two of the six students wounded were in critical condition, the spokesman added.

The shooting was typical of the violence that has hit high schools in the United States but was a rare occurrence in Argentina and all of Latin America, radio and television commentary said.

The teenager is the son of a coast guard officer and used a 9-mm pistol, Carmen de Patagones police chief Eduardo Diego said on television.

"There was no kind of aggression nor verbal warning. The boy pulled the weapon out from under his clothes and began to shoot," Diego said.

The teenager had no history of violence but officials said he was very shy and did not mix well with other students.

"They were working with the boy to integrate him and help overcome the shyness that kept him from interacting well with his schoolmates," Oporto said.

[Lisa]

Oh Ale, thats terrible.
What is the world coming to when a 15 year old feels he has to kill someone else??

It's only a matter of time before it happens in a school near me

All the children and families should be in our thoughts tonight