Gunman kills 5 in Brazil cathedral, commits suicide

A gunman opens fire in a cathedral in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas, near Sao Paulo, killing at least five worshippers before committing suicide, according to police.

Paramedics tell media the man fired a revolver and a .38-caliber pistol inside the cathedral, also wounding several people before killing himself.

The motive of the shooting and the identity of the gunman are not immediately known.

A man has killed 4 people, and wounded 4 others before committing suicide, during Mass this morning at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Campinas, just north of São Paulo, Brazil.https://t.co/c5Bbj8bTcC pic.twitter.com/Xm1WgQf75L

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“An individual entered a church and opened fire on several people,” a police spokesperson says.

“Currently the information we have is six deaths and three wounded,” the spokesperson says, declining for the moment to say whether the gunman was included in the toll.

However television images show the lifeless body of the gunman, wearing jeans and a blue t-shirt, lying inside the cathedral, holding a discharged pistol in his right hand.

Television also show paramedics attending several people outside the cathedral and multiple police cars in the street.