MANILA: Two people have died and another two are injured after a school shooting in a southern part of the Philippines.
The shooter, a student carrying a high-powered firearm, took aim at fellow students inside a classroom at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University High School on Tuesday morning, Zamboanga city mayor Khymer Adan Olaso told local radio station DZMM.
One student and the shooter died, while two students were injured, he said, adding that investigations are ongoing.
It was the second school shooting in as many months in the Philippines, which has strict gun ownership laws. Firearms do however at times find their way into unauthorised hands through the black market.
Earlier this month, a Thai student killed six people and injured more than 20 others at a school north of Bangkok after first shooting his grandparents at home, in that country’s deadliest school attack in recent years.
