(8 Apr 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Close of family members of Bianca Rocha Tabares, school pupil that was killed in the shooting, placing her coffin on cart
2. Various of family members accompanying cart carrying coffin to cemetery
3. Wide of family members carrying coffin
4. Cutaway of mourners at funeral
5. Top shot of family members placing coffin in ground inside cemetery
6. Various of mourners singing at funeral
7. Wide of mourners
8. Mourners clapping
9. Various of two girls consoling each other, seated on pavement
10. Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes arriving at cemetery
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Eduardo Paes, Rio Mayor:
"It was the kind of tragedy that saddens everyone in the city. Everybody is very saddened and shocked by what happened so all we can do now is show a little tenderness and comfort to these families. We've been following them since yesterday but it is difficult to console people for this kind of loss."
12. Top-shot of cemetery and mourners
13. Close-up of crying mother of Laryssa da Silva Martins, child who died in the shooting
14. Various of Laryssa's coffin being buried
15. Police officers at cemetery
16. Various or mourners at the cemetery
17. Close of Laryssa's grave being closed, family and friends crying, clapping as they mourn the child
18. Wide shot flower petals being thrown off helicopter onto crowd during funeral
19. Various of family and friends of Laryssa
20. Various of another child Mariana Rocha de Souza being buried in lower slot
21. Various of children holding up white flag for peace
22. Wide exterior of school
23. Woman and boy laying down flowers against the school wall
24. Pan of 12 flowerpots, each with a name of a child that was killed
25. Mid of crosses with names of those killed
26. Close-up of message in Portuguese
STORYLINE
There were scenes of anguish in Rio de Janeiro on Friday as families began burying some of the children gunned down in an elementary school a day earlier.
The victims were laid to rest at a cemetery atop a hill overlooking the working-class neighbourhood where the school shooting took place.
"My love! My love!" screamed Noelia Rocha de Souza as the body of her 12-year-old daughter, Mariana, was placed in a white-walled cement tomb.
As pallbearers placed a cover on top of the tomb, she wept uncontrollably before medical personnel on standby guided her away.
A man who family members said was the father of 15-year-old student Gessica Pereira helped carry her coffin.
Upon placing Gessica's casket in her tomb the man yelled out "Go with God!", then began clapping.
A large crowd joined him.
Also buried were victims Bianca Rocha Tabares and Laryssa da Silva Martins.
Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes attended the first two funerals.
He called the shooting a "tragedy that shook everyone in the city".
Ten girls and two boys ranging in age from 12 to 15 were gunned down inside the Tasso da Silveira public school on Thursday, most lined up along a wall and shot in the head at point-blank range.
The shooter, whom police identified as 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira, was carrying two revolvers, and shot and killed himself after being confronted by authorities.
At least 12 other students were injured. Two are in grave condition.
Residents from the Realengo neighbourhood in western Rio on Friday left floral tributes to the dead by the school's walls and 12 crosses with the names of each child killed.
President Dilma Rousseff was expected to arrive in Rio to attend some of the funerals, which are expected to take place in rapid succession at three cemeteries in western Rio.
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