Blumenau

[bloo-muh-nou]

noun

1. a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.

Example Sentences

In April, a man with a hatchet broke into a nursery school in Blumenau, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, and killed four children and injured at least five others.

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The parents, along with other mourners at the São José cemetery, which overlooks Blumenau’s German district, could not speak with the press as they grieved.

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Dozens of mourners gathered at the day care center in Blumenau to pray, to lay flowers for the victims — aged 5 to 7 — and to cry.

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Meus sentimentos e preces para as famílias das vítimas e comunidade de Blumenau diante da monstruosidade ocorrida na creche Bom Pastor.

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Military police said a 25-year-old man rode a motorcycle to the day-care center in Blumenau, 370 miles southeast of São Paulo, before 10 a.m. and attacked the children on the facility’s playground.

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