MANILA, Philippines — The serial number of the .38-caliber revolver allegedly used by the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting at a Tacloban City high school was traced to another gun in Bohol, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).

“Through the serial number, it was traced to a security agency in Cebu,” PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. told reporters in a chance interview in Camp Crame on Wednesday.

“When they were asked about the actual presence or where the gun was, it was traced in another province but not in Tacloban. [It was] in Bohol,” added Nartatez partly in Filipino.

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“It is now being investigated to know why two guns have the same serial number,” Nartatez also said.FEATURED STORIES