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TACLOBAN: Two students opened fire on Monday inside a school in the central Philippines, a rare campus shooting that killed three teens and wounded seven others, police said.
The two alleged shooters, aged 15 and 14, were in custody after firing “randomly” in San Jose National High School, police Lieutenant Evalyn Diaz said of the violence that sent terrified students running for cover.
A Glock 9mm pistol used in the shooting was registered to a policewoman in the region, national police spokesman Allen Rae Co told a media briefing, adding that she was taken into custody. Over 40 empty shells were found at the scene, police added.
Irvin Nogar, a 52-year-old social studies teacher, told AFP he was in the middle of a class at the school in Leyte province’s Tacloban City when he heard several “loud gun shots”.
