Two students dead in Philippines school shooting including gunman, officials say
Two students were killed in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, one of them the gunman, and the situation was now under control, officials said, the second such incident in the country in less than two months.
Two students were killed and three others wounded in a school shooting at a high school in Zamboanga, southern Philippines, on Tuesday. The gunman, a grade 9 student, also died in the incident. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered a thorough investigation into the matter and called for measures to prevent such violence in schools.
This is the second such incident in the country in less than two months, following an attack in June at a public high school in Tacloban City that left at least three students dead and about 20 others injured. School shootings in the Philippines are rare due to strict gun ownership regulations, but illegal firearms remain in circulation.
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