A TEENAGE student has shot dead another pupil before turning the gun on himself in a horror school shooting in the Philippines.
The gunman reportedly livestreamed the attack after bringing a pistol and a rifle onto the school campus and firing inside two classrooms, police said.
Philippine police gather at a school following a shooting in Zamboanga Credit: AFP
People stand outside Ateneo de Zamboanga University after the shooting Credit: Reuters
The victim was a male grade 10 student, believed to be around 15 or 16 years old.
The gunman was in the year below and was found dead inside the school next to a .45-calibre pistol just a short distance away from the sole victim.
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Two others were wounded in the attack.
The suspect is believed to have targeted a teacher who was sat at a table but missed, Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso told local radio.
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He then entered another classroom where he shot the student, Olaso added.
Alleged livestream footage appears to show a gun barrel moving at speed down a hallway taken from a first-person perspective.
The shooting took place at a school attached to the privately-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the city of Zamboanga.
The school is made up of a five-storey building sitting on an 8-hectare site that is used by both university and junior high school students.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered law enforcement agencies to investigate the latest school shooting to rock the country.
He said: “Our schools are where we entrust our children to learn, to grow and to dream about the lives ahead of them.
“They must also be among the safest places in our country.”
It comes shortly after three people died and five were injured after two pistol-wielding students opened fire at their own school.
The suspects, aged 14 and 15, were armed with a gun each when they stormed San Jose National High School in Tacloban on June 22.
Terrifying footage filmed inside a classroom shows students hiding beneath tables while one brave man barricades the door.
