On a Tuesday morning in Zamboanga, in the southern Philippines, a student carried a gun onto the campus of Ateneo de Zamboanga University's high school and opened fire, killing a classmate before taking his own life. The act of violence — the second major school shooting in the Philippines in under three months — leaves a community grieving not only its dead but its sense of safety, and a nation confronting the uncomfortable possibility that something systemic is fracturing within its schools.
Student opens fire at Philippine high school, killing one peer before taking own life
Two students killed, including the gunman; a teacher was targeted but unclear if hit.