Three people have died and five injured in a school shooting in Central Philippines, police said.<\/p>\n
Two persons of interest \u2013 one of them a 15-year-old Grade 9 student of the school \u2013 are now in police custody, the Inquirer reported.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred at around 9am on Monday morning at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City.<\/p>\n
\u200eOne suspect, classified as a Child In Conflict with the Law and a resident of Barangay San Jose, was arrested at the scene. Police caught the second after a chase and seized the gun allegedly used in the shooting from him.<\/p>\n
Tacloban City police chief Noelito Getigan told the Manila Bulletin the shooting was the result of alleged bullying suffered by the suspects.<\/p>\n
Police Regional Office 8 has \u2060deployed additional personnel at the school to ensure the safety \u2060of students, staff, parents and the surrounding community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have died and five injured in a school shooting in Central Philippines, police said. Two persons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[149898,149893,149901,149905,64606,149897,149902,149904,149899,149903,149895,88,90,149900,89,149894,135,149896],"class_list":["post-369807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ateneo-de-manila-university","tag-barangay-san-jose","tag-central-philippines","tag-child-in-conflict-with-the-law","tag-inquirer","tag-lamitan-city","tag-manila-bulletin","tag-noelito-getigan","tag-police-regional-office","tag-quezon-city","tag-rose-furigay","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-national-high-school","tag-san-jose-news","tag-scmp","tag-shooting","tag-tacloban-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}