Ammon News - 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.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos ​Jr ordered law enforcement agencies to investigate and to determine measures to be ⁠taken to prevent violence in schools.

"Our schools are where we entrust our children to learn, to grow ​and to dream about the lives ahead of them. They must also be among the safest places ​in our country," Marcos said in a statement.

The shooting took place at a school attached to the privately-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the city of Zamboanga, where the gunman brought a pistol and a rifle onto the school ​campus and fired at students inside the classroom, according to a preliminary police report.

Video aired by ​GMA News, with images blurred, showed chaotic scenes inside a classroom with students ducking for cover as several gunshots ‌rang out.

The ⁠victim was a male grade 10 student, police said. The gunman, a grade 9 student, killed himself, police said.

Two others were wounded.


Reuters