MANILA
\nA grade 10 student was shot dead at a high school in the southern Philippines on Tuesday before the alleged killer took his own life, police said. The school shooting, the countries second in as many months, took place at Ateneo de Zamboanga University, a Catholic private institution in western Mindanao.
\nRegional police said a ninth-grade student had brought a \u201cpistol and rifle inside the school campus\u201d and opened fire in a classroom, killing one person before turning the gun on himself. \u201cThe investigation is ongoing\u2026 We are still trying to identify the motive,\u201d police spokeswoman Shella Chang told media, adding the crime scene was now being processed.
\nIt was not immediately clear how many had been injured. In a video circulated by local media that was seemingly live-streamed on Facebook, the barrel of a gun can be seen moving down a hallway in the style of a first-person shooter video game before being pointed into a classroom and fired.
\nChildren in school uniforms are then seen screaming and rushing for an exit. The alleged shooter\u2019s Facebook account has since been disabled. \u201cIn the video, we see that he first shot at the teacher who was sitting at a table,\u201d Zamboanga City mayor Khymer Olaso, who initially identified the shooter as a seventh grader, told a local radio station.
\n\u201cIt seems he missed, then moved to another room\u2026 He shot another student there,\u201d he said. The school separately confirmed the two fatalities. \u201cWe have already coordinated with parents and guardians to pick up their children and the university has ensured the safety of those remaining on campus,\u201d it said in a statement.
\nSchool shootings are rare in the Philippines, but three teenaged students were killed and 20 others wounded in the central Philippines in June. Ateneo de Zamboanga last month became one of many schools across the country to conduct active shooter drills. Legal gun ownership is tightly regulated in the Southeast Asian country, but a large black market exists for firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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