Two teen students open fire at Philippine high school, killing 3 and wounding 20

Three students killed and at least 20 wounded, including one with critical head injury; two child perpetrators aged 14 and 15 arrested.

On a Monday morning in Tacloban City, two teenagers carried pistols into San Jose National High School and opened fire on their classmates, killing three and wounding twenty others before being arrested at the scene. The Philippines, a nation where such violence remains uncommon, was forced to confront questions that haunt societies everywhere: how children come to hold weapons, and what goes unseen before the unthinkable occurs. President Marcos ordered a sweeping investigation and called for strengthened security across the nation's schools, as a community began the long work of grief and re

Two teen students open fire at Philippine high school, killing 3 and wounding 20

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