Three times in four months, a Philippine school has become the site of a child killing children — a pattern so new to the country that officials are still reaching for language to describe it. On a Friday afternoon in Mindanao, a 16-year-old who warned his friends at lunch and was dismissed as a joker opened fire at Banga National High School, killing two 14-year-olds and wounding eight others before ending his own life. In a nation where guns are common but school shootings were once nearly unheard of, the clustering of these tragedies is forcing a reckoning with how violence migrates across
Teen gunman kills two students in Philippines school shooting, third since June
Two 14-year-old students killed, eight others injured including four in critical condition, and the 16-year-old gunman dead by suicide.