DFA checking on Pinoys in Brazil and France after gun attacks

The Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday said it is checking if there are Filipinos affected in shooting incidents in Brazil and in France.

Quoting DFA sources, a report on "Dobol B sa News TV" said that Philippine foreign officials in said countries are checking if there are Pinoys among casualties in the deadly gun attacks.

Insidente ng pamamaril sa loob ng isang katedral sa São Paulo, Brazil, minomonitor ng @DFAPHL. | via Mao dela Cruz pic.twitter.com/3XJAv222NP

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) December 12, 2018

                  Five people were killed and four others were hurt                   when a gunman entered a Catholic cathedral in the Brazilian city of Campinas last Tuesday and fatally shot four people attending midday Mass before killing himself at the altar.

Four elderly people were seriously wounded by the man, who began shooting at the congregation with two guns, according to a spokesman with the fire department in Campinas, an industrial city 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo, where the shooting took place.

In France, the death toll from the Christmas marker shooting in Strasbourg rose to four early Wednesday morning (in Manila).

Four people were killed and 12 more injured by a gunman who opened fire at a busy Christmas market in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Tuesday, the city's mayor told Agence France-Presse. —LBG, GMA News