Quote of the Day --UPDATED

"I've never seen anything like this. It's like something in the United States."

 A fireman in Rio de Janeiro who arrived just after a 24 year old former student opened fire with two handguns and killed some 20 eleven children between the ages of 11 and 13. He left a note, contents so far undisclosed.





And on Saturday, from the Nethelands, where another 24 year old opened fire with a machine gun in a shopping mall:

You hear about this sort of thing happening at American schools and you think that's a long way away," said Rob Kuipers, 50, a project manager. "Now it's happened here in the Netherlands."

In both incidents, the gunmen killed themselves as police arrived.