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TWELVE people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a school, according to reports.
Local police confirmed that another 22 pupils at Tasso da Silveira school, in western Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were injured in the horror.
Cops have named the gunman as 23-year-old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a former student at the school.
He told security he was there to give a speech, before entering the school and opening fire.
Terrified witnesses described how the 'smartly-dressed' man carried two handguns, which he reloaded several times during the brutal shootings.
Wellington opened fire on a group of children aged 12-14 before taking his own life.
He was later found to be carrying a suicide note - although police have not revealed the contents.
One student's father described the scene at the school as "a bloodbath".
Local cops on patrol were alerted to the massacre after they saw injured children running down the street.
Some survivors were taken to hospital by helicopter and ambulance while others were treated at a makeshift hospital set up on a nearby football pitch.
Scenes outside the school were equally dramatic with sobbing parents collapsing and fainting as they wait for news of their loved ones.
One school official, who refused to be named, said: "We saw many children, unconscious, shot down.
"We started hearing gunshots. With the echo, it seemed that one thing was collapsing. Everybody ran. Then the teacher arrived saying that the guy got shot at in a room."
Local TV crews filmed hundreds of panicked parents and staff lining the streets outside the school, which is in one of the city's poorest areas.
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