January 10, 2025 incident at a school in Nova Sintra, Republic of Cape Verde. Need help gathering information.

 

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Dear readers and colleagues!

As I have already mentioned in previous publications, I am currently working on an addition to the handbook, which will also include statistics for the year 2025. While analyzing open sources, I found information about an incident that allegedly took place on January 10, 2025 in a school in the city of Nova Sintra, Republic of Cape Verde. The only mention of it is in the «List of attacks related to secondary schools» section of Wikipedia. Here's what it states:

A student shot a classmate with a firearm on Thursday, January 10, 2025, wounding him in the neck, at the Eugénio Tavares High School on Brava Island, authorities announced. The incident occurred around 3:40 p.m., when the teenagers were at recess and one of them took a 6.35-caliber firearm from his backpack and shot his friend, hitting him in the neck. Despite the rough sea, the victim was transferred by the military and a nursing team to the São Francisco de Assis Hospital on the neighboring island of Fogo, and is out of danger. This was the first school shooting incident in Cape Verde and the only one so far.

The article itself does not link to the source of information about the incident. Search queries in various search engines also yielded no useful information, except for a few references to the same article on Wikipedia and a few of its clones.

I will be glad to any information on the circumstances of this incident (if of course it was at all), or information refuting the fact of the event of this crime, with links to sources.

I thank in advance all those who help me in collecting new information, clarifying and correcting previously published data, forming and editing sections, as well as other work on the guide.

With respect.

Author and Editor-in-Chief of the project - Roman Grishin.