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‘I thought it was just another drill’: Inside the Zamboanga school shooting

A Grade 9 student shot dead a schoolmate before killing himself at a Catholic university's high school campus in Zamboanga.

The police watch over the body of a Grade 10 student killed by his Grade 9 schoolmate, who fired guns inside the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, on Aug 18.

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