Zamboanga School Shooting Kills 2 Students, Including Grade 9 Gunman
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Updated · CNN · Aug 17
Zamboanga School Shooting Kills 2 Students, Including Grade 9 Gunman
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 17
Summary
A grade 9 student opened fire inside a classroom at Ateneo de Zamboanga University’s school in southern Philippines, killing one male student and then himself, police said.
Police said the gunman brought a pistol and a rifle onto campus; university president Ernald Andal said the shooting was no longer active and no other deaths or injuries were reported.
ANC footage showed students and parents gathered outside the gates as armed police and soldiers secured the site and crime scene investigators arrived.
The attack was the Philippines’ second school shooting in less than two months, after a June assault in Tacloban City that killed at least 3 students and injured about 20 others.
School shootings are rare in the Philippines despite illegal firearms remaining in circulation under otherwise strict gun-ownership rules, and the attack came less than 10 days after a school shooting near Bangkok.