RIO DE JANEIRO—A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare center Wednesday in Brazil, killing four children and wounding at least five others, authorities said.
The assailant turned himself in at a police station and did not appear to have any connection with the center, which offers nursery services, preschool education, and after-school activities. The dead were between the ages of 5 and 7, authorities said.
Investigators were searching for a motive, a police detective told television reporters in Blumenau, a city in southern Brazil, near the Atlantic coast.
Images broadcast on networks showed weeping parents outside the private daycare center called Cantinho do Bom Pastor….