A high school student carrying two firearms shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday (August 18, 2026) in a high school in a university campus in the southern Philippines, an official and police said.

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Zamboanga City Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso said the suspect apparently wore a body camera to livestream the attack at the high school on the Ateneo de Zamboanga university campus in his city.

Two other people were injured, he said.

The suspect initially fired at a teacher, but it was not clear if the teacher was hit. He then shot a fellow student, who died, before shooting himself, Mr. Olaso told DZBB radio network.

The shooting in the Philippines occurred less than two weeks after a school shooting in Thailand.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul took steps to restrict guns in the Southeast Asian country after a 14-year-old boy killed his grandparents, five school staff members and a 12-year-old girl in Nonthaburi province outside Bangkok.

Thailand’s high rate of gun ownership is second only to Pakistan in Asia, and far surpasses its Southeast Asian neighbours. (AP)

Two persons opened fire in a high school in the central Philippines on Monday (June 22, 2026), killing three students and wounding another five, police officials said.

Two suspects have been taken into custody, police said, one of whom is a student at San Jose National High School in Tacloban city, where the shooting happened, according to police. Both are male.

Police investigators were still trying to determine what sparked the shooting in the school, while police deployed forces to beef up security.