Police: Only one security guard at Tacloban City school during shooting

MANILA, Philippines — There was only one security guard at the Tacloban City school where a shooting incident occurred and left three students dead on Monday, according to the Police Regional Office Eastern Visayas (PRO 8).

The shooting occurred sometime around 9 a.m. on Monday when two male Grade 9 students, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old, opened fire in two rooms inside the school premises in Barangay San Jose.

“The school had many entrances and exits and they only had one security guard who was deployed,” PRO 8 director Brig. Gen. Jason Capoy told reporters in a phone interview.

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“Then, during the time of the incident, the security was at the guardhouse at around 9 a.m. That’s perhaps why they couldn’t strictly implement frisking,” he added.

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The two arrested suspects will be turned over to the city social welfare department, Capoy added. /das

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