SUZANO, Brazil (AP) - Two masked men armed with guns, knives, axes and crossbows descended on a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing five students and two adults before taking their own lives, authorities said. The men, identified as former students at the school in a suburb of Sao Paulo, also shot and killed the owner of a used car business nearby before launching the attack on the school, authorities said. Besides the five students, the dead included a teacher and a school administrator, said Joao Camilo Pires de Campos, the state`s public secretary. Nine others were wounded in the school attack and hospitalized, he said. `This is the saddest day of my life,` de Campos said,...
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