At least 2 students killed in Philippine school shooting
A high school student carrying two firearms shot to death a fellow student before killing himself on Tuesday in a high school in a university campus in the southern Philippines, an official and police said. 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…
At least two students were killed in a school shooting at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University campus in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga on Tuesday. The attacker, identified as grade nine student Mohammad Mael Jalani, carried two pistols and live-streamed the attack via a body-worn camera before killing himself. The incident was the second fatal school shooting in the country within two months.
The suspect initially fired at a teacher but missed, then shot a student on the fourth floor before going upstairs and committing suicide. The attack was live-streamed on Facebook and caught on video, showing the suspect firing a gun in a hallway and pointing it at a classroom before students screamed and rushed for safety. The university suspended classes for two days following the attack.
Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla stated that the attacker used a father's government-issued pistol and that the school administration, parents, and the community were cooperating with the investigation. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. condemned the attack and called for a thorough investigation. This incident occurred despite police assurances that security in schools across the country would be strengthened after a shooting in Tacloban in June.
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