Students killed in horror live-streamed Philippines school shooting

The shooting on Tuesday comes just months after a separate school shooting incident in the country in which three students were killed and 20 others were injured

Tannur Anders UK & World News Reporter

06:01, 18 Aug 2026Updated 06:59, 18 Aug 2026

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

A high school student fatally shot a class mate before killing himself, a local official has said. Two other people sustained injuries.

The alleged shooter 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. A video, circulated by local media, was seemingly live-streamed on Facebook.

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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)

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.

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

"In the video, we see that he first shot at the teacher who was sitting at a table," Mr 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."

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

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The incident comes two months after a high school shooting in the central region killed three students and injured 20 others.

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

Illegal firearms remain in circulation, however.

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