Suspect killed after 13 kindergarteners taken hostage, beaten in Brazil

Brazil police rescue 13 children taken hostage at kindergarten Brazilian police have rescued 13 children who had been taken hostage at a kindergarten in the southern city of Curitiba after killing the suspect, who threatened to set fire to the building, according to officials. At least one of the children was wounded in Friday’s incident, the commander of the military police special forces unit in Parana state, Alexandre Lopes Dias, told reporters without elaborating on who or what injured the child. Parana police spokesperson Leticia Martins told journalists outside the school that the suspect jumped the school gate on Friday, broke into a kindergarten classroom and held 13 children hostage.