3 dead in graduation shooting at top Philippines university

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MANILA - Three people died in a shooting at a university graduation ceremony in the Philippines' capital region on Sunday (July 24), including a former mayor from the volatile south of the country, police said. Local Quezon City police chief Remus Medina said the shooting appeared to have been an assassination of the former mayor of the southern Lamitan city,...

Police investigators carry the body of one of the three people who died during a shooting, at the Ateneo de Manila University, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on July 24, 2022.MANILA - Three people died in a shooting at a university graduation ceremony in the Philippines' capital region on Sunday , including a former mayor from the volatile south of the country, police said.

The suspect, wounded in a shootout with a campus security officer and arrested after a car chase, was now in custody and being interrogated, Medina told reporters.Quezon is part of the Manila capital region, an urban sprawl of 16 cities home to more than 13 million people. The suspect, who had no relatives at the graduation, was also a native of Lamitan city in Basilan province, a stronghold of Abu Sayyaf, a pro-Islamist State extremist group known for its banditry and kidnapping.Ateneo cancelled the graduation ceremony after the shooting.

 

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