🔻Deadly shooting at a school in the Philippines; the attacker was a 16-year-old teenager

In a deadly shooting at a high school in Bangaa, in the southeast Philippines, three people were killed and at least eight others were injured.

Albert Palencia, the mayor of Bangaa, told the BBC that two of the victims are 14-year-old students.

According to him, the attacker—also a 16-year-old teenager—was killed. Four of the injured are reported to be in critical condition.

The Philippine Department of Education expressed deep concern in a statement.

This is the third deadly school shooting in the Philippines in the past three months.

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