A 14-year-old student was injured in a school shooting in Puerto Montt, in southern Chile.
The attacker is believed to be another teenager and a student from the same school, who walked into Patagonia College wearing a military jacket and a mask from the Netflix hit show Money Heist.
After being shot in the neck, the student ran to a toilet, but teachers were alerted, so he was sent to an ER.
The suspect was later arrested by the Uniformed Armed Police, who found the gun that was allegedly used in the shooting in a canal near the school.
Shootings are not common in Chile. In fact, many believe this is the first incident of this kind registered in the country, even the police.
Despite no other students were harmed, the school decided to cancel classes for the day in all its levels and called parents to pick up their children as soon as possible.
The Interior minister, Andrés Chadwick, lamented that teenagers can have easy access to guns. Apparently, it belonged to the student’s grandfather.
Now, Chadwick said, checking students’ bags arises as a valid precautionary measure, which has been previously proposed by the Government.
Nonetheless, the move has been critised by students, schools and the opposition, which has a majority in the House and the Senate.
In the wake of the attack, the undersecretary of the Interior, Rodrigo Ubilla; and the secretary of Education, Marcela Cubillos, travelled to Puerto Montt, over 1,000 kilometers south of Santiago.
