Knifeman kills three in Zamboanga school attack
10/23/2010ZAMBOANGA — An ex-convict burst into a school in the southern Philippines and stabbed three people to death before being killed himself yesterday, a police official said.
The knife-wielding man killed a teacher, a 12-year-old schoolgirl and an elderly man and wounded at least six other persons in a school just outside the southern city of Zamboanga, said Senior Supt. Edwin de Ocampo.
“The suspect reportedly went inside the classroom, then stabbed the teacher in the chest, then stabbed two other teachers and two students,” De Ocampo, the city police director, told reporters.
He then tried to enter other classrooms, stabbing more people along the way, De Ocampo said.
The female teacher and one of her students were killed, along with the girl’s grandfather who was visiting at the time. Two other teachers and four more students were also wounded in the attack, De Ocampo added.
As the terrified students took refuge in a bathroom, local residents rushed to the scene and battered the attacker to death with large stones, De Ocampo said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101023hed3.html
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