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A student has livestreamed himself shooting a schoolmate dead before taking his own life at a high school in the Philippines, authorities have said.
The shooting happened on Tuesday at the Catholic private school in western Mindanao, marking the country’s second school shooting in two months.
Regional police spokeswoman Shella Chang told AFP that the ninth-grade suspect entered the classroom of the victim, shot the student and then went to the fifth floor, where he shot himself.
“What we know so far is that (the shooter) went to the classroom of our known victim. He shot the victim, and after doing that, he went up to the fifth floor and shot himself,” Chang said.
Interior Secretary Victor Remulla said the suspect livestreamed the incident on social media. The Facebook account has since been disabled.
Local media circulated footage from the livestream showing a gun moving through a school hallway before being pointed into a classroom and fired. Students in school uniforms were seen screaming and running towards an exit.
Authorities have not confirmed whether anyone else was injured.
Police are investigating the motive for the attack, the ownership and source of the firearm and how it was brought into the school. Police have also not released the ages or identities of the student who carried out the attack and the victim.
Ateneo de Zamboanga president Father Guillrey Andal confirmed the two deaths and said the school was cooperating with investigators.
“We are in the process of working with the police for us to be able to identify them, so that we can communicate first with their loved ones,” Andal told reporters.
He said the shooting had caused “deep concern and worry” among the school community.
“Prior to this, our security team had even been preparing a simulation exercise, precisely because we understand the value to everyone — our students, our personnel — of safety,” he said.
School shootings remain rare in the Philippines. However, three teenage students were killed and 20 others wounded in a separate school attack in the central Philippines in June. Following that incident, Ateneo de Zamboanga and other schools across the country conducted active-shooter drills.
Although legal gun ownership is strictly regulated in the Philippines, authorities say the country has a significant black market for firearms.
