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Manila, Philippines — Two students equipped with manus guns opened occurrence successful a precocious schoolhouse successful the cardinal Philippines connected Monday, sidesplitting 3 chap students and wounding different seven, constabulary said.
The suspects, aged 14 and 15, were arrested. The suspects and victims were students of the San Jose National High School successful Tacloban city, southeast of Manila, wherever the mid-morning shooting happened, determination constabulary main Brig. Gen. Jason Capoy said.
An probe was underway to find the origin of the shooting successful the government-run school, which has much than 1,500 students. Capoy said the suspects, who were adjacent friends, said successful archetypal questioning that they were bullied successful school. He didn't elaborate.
They person nary transgression records, Capoy said. They managed to bring the guns into the field due to the fact that determination was lone 1 defender connected work astatine aggregate entrances and exits, helium added.
Police officers basal adjacent the country of a precocious schoolhouse compound successful Tacloban City, Philippines wherever 3 students were killed and respective others wounded connected June 22, 2026.
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National constabulary spokesperson Allen Rae Co told a media briefing a 9 mm pistol utilized successful the shooting was registered to a policewoman successful the portion and she was taken into custody, French quality bureau AFP reported. Co said the different limb utilized successful the shooting, a .38 caliber revolver, was registered to a information bureau successful Cebu City successful the cardinal Philippines.
It wasn't wide however the suspects got the weapons, constabulary said.
Over 40 bare shells were recovered astatine the scene, constabulary added.
"The suspects barged into 2 rooms due to the fact that aft the shooting successful the first, the children scampered and the suspects seemingly ran aft immoderate victims into different room," Capoy told reporters.
Most of the dormant and wounded were pistillate students, helium said.
In a video posted online, students hiding nether desks successful a unopen schoolroom tin beryllium heard screaming and weeping arsenic gunshots could beryllium heard outside. Some called their mothers. Other videos amusement visibly terrified students streaming retired of the schoolhouse campus, immoderate holding and embracing each other.
One of the suspects was arrested successful the schoolhouse aft the onslaught but the 2nd fled and hid successful a location nearby. He was recovered by constabulary who were alerted by residents, constabulary said.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a thorough probe of the shooting and asked instrumentality enforcement to boost information successful each schools, workplaces and nationalist areas, Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said.
"The president was saddened by this incident. Anybody, particularly the parents of the victims, volition consciousness bittersweet and terrified," Castro said.
The nationalist constabulary person urged the nationalist to stay calm and cooperate with authorities by providing immoderate accusation that whitethorn assistance the ongoing investigation.
Crimes involving the usage of firearms are prevalent successful the Philippines, partially owed to the proliferation of unlicensed firearms, but schoolhouse shootings are comparatively rare.
In 2022, a antheral equipped with pistols opened occurrence successful an upscale assemblage successful the Manila metropolitan country up of a graduation ceremony, sidesplitting a erstwhile Philippine municipality politician with whom the fishy had a long-running feud and 2 others successful the brazen attack. The gunman was arrested.
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