Brasília, March 13 (IANS) Two teenagers opened fire on Wednesday at a school in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing at least eight people, including several children, officials said.

A school employee and the two suspected teenage gunmen were also among the dead in the attack at the Professor Raul Brasil state school in Suzano, a Fire Department spokesman was cited as saying by Efe news.

Sao Paulo state Governor Joao Doria tweeted that the victims had been "cruelly murdered".

--IANS soni/nir