<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">One student died and three others were wounded today after a shooting at a school in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, the local government said in a statement.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The attack took place in Sapopemba, a neighbourhood on the eastern side of Sao Paulo and the perpetrator has been arrested, the government said.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Sao Paulo government deeply regrets and sympathises with the families of the victims of the attack that took place this morning at Sapopemba State School,” a statement from the local government said.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the government, three students were shot and one of them – a girl – died, while the other two were hospitalised.</div><div><br></div><div>A fourth student was injured while trying to flee the attack.</div><div><br></div><div>“At this time, the priority is to assist the victims and provide psychological support to the students, education professionals and their families,” it said.</div><div><br></div><div>In March, a student with a knife killed a teacher at a school in another Sao Paulo neighbourhood in an attack that injured three teachers and a student.</div><div><br></div><div>In April, a man with a hatchet broke into a nursery school in Blumenau, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, and killed four children and injured at least five others. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>