Two students dead after horror live-streamed shooting at Philippines high school

The alleged shooter managed to sneak in a .45-calibre pistol into the school on Tuesday despite the country having relatively strict gun laws - the alleged shooter is dead

Tannur Anders UK & World News Reporter

06:19, 18 Aug 2026Updated 06:56, 18 Aug 2026

Two people were killed in a shooting at a school in the southern Philippines

Two students have died and another two people sustained injuries in a shooting at a school in the Philippines. The alleged shooter, one of the deceased, managed to sneak in a .45-calibre pistol into a classroom at the school in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, August 18.

The city's 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. Mayor Alaso said on Facbeook: "Good day all classes at Ateneo de Zamboanga will be suspended efective today in all Level."

And he told radio station DZMM the shooter managed to enter carrying a high-powered firearm and a .45 calibre pistol."

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Philippine police gather at a school following a shooting in Zamboanga on August 18, 2026.

In the video, we see that he first shot at the teacher who was sitting at a table, Olaso said, referencing a video being circulated by local media.

It seems he missed, then moved to another room ... he shot another student there, the one who fell. It seems two others were also injured, probably before he killed himself.

A video circulating on social media captures what appears to be the horrific incident.

The suspect fired on a teacher who was seated at the table, but missed.

The suspect subsequently moved to another classroom and shot a student who later died, Mr Olaso told a local radio station.

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Police and security guards secure a junior high school building on the Ateneo de Zamboanga University campus following a shooting incident in Zamboanga, southern Philippines Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo)

A separate high school shooting took place in the central region just two months earlier, killing three students and injuring 20 others.

The Philippines has relatively strict gun ownership regulations, including background checks and psychological evaluation requirements.

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Illegal firearms remain in circulation, however.

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