Two students were killed in a shooting at high school in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, one of them the gunman, before the situation was put under control, officials said, in the second such incident in the country in less than two months.
The Telegraph online reports that the shooting took place at a school attached to the privately-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the city of Zamboanga, where the gunman brought a pistol and a rifle into the school campus and fired at students inside the classroom, according to a preliminary police report.
The gunman, a grade 9 student, killed himself. The victim was a male student a grade above him, police said.
The university’s president Ernald Andal confirmed there was no longer an active shooting and there were no additional fatalities or reported injuries.
Zamboanga city Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso said the suspect apparently wore a body camera to livestream the attack at the high school on the Ateneo de Zamboanga university campus in his city. Two other people were injured, he said.
The suspect initially fired at a teacher but it was not clear if the teacher was hit.
School shootings are rare in the Philippines, which has relatively strict gun ownership regulations, including background checks and psychological evaluation requirements, although illegal firearms remain in circulation.
News channel ANC showed footage of students and parents gathering outside the school gates with some armed police and soldiers present. Crime scene investigators were seen arriving at the school.
