Tacloban school shooting a case of ‘bullying gone wrong’ - Remulla

MANILA, Philippines — Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Wednesday said the deadly Tacloban City school shooting was a case of “bullying gone wrong.”

“When it comes to the Tacloban case, I’m just now about to get the full report,” Remulla told reporters in a chance interview in Camp Crame.

“But, it appears from the initial feedback that it was bullying gone wrong… The children claimed that they’ve been bullied way back. It seems they had enough of the tough guys in the classroom. That’s why they did it,” Remulla added.

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Two male students, aged 14 and 15, opened fire inside the San Jose National High School last Monday morning, killing three students and wounding several others.

The Philippine National Police previously said it was investigating the students’ claims that they were bullied and that they had been playing a game called GoreBox.

“We’d like to repeat that there were police officers assigned to every school. But, we’re not allowed to frisk every student,” Remulla maintained.

“The jurisdiction of the PNP is outside the school, not inside. Inside the school, it’s the school principal who’s in charge… But, we have to review our policies. If there was bullying, we have to address that. We also have to address other root causes of the problem,” Remulla pointed out. /gsg

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