Eight killed in Brazil school shooting, two suspects dead

A student cries after a shooting at her school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, where five teenage students were among those killed. [AFP]

Two former pupils shot dead eight people, most of them students and staff, at a high school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday before turning their weapons on themselves, authorities said.

The two assailants burst into the school grounds in the early morning, armed with a .38 caliber revolver and a "medieval weapon that looked like a bow and arrows," military police Colonel Marcelo Sales said.