MANILA — Two people were killed in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Tuesday and the situation was now under control, officials said, in the second such incident in the country in nearly two months.
The shooting took place at a school attached to the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the southern city of Zamboanga. The city's mayor Khymer Adan Olaso told DZMM radio both casualties were students and one was the shooter, who used a "high-powered firearm".