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A 16-year-old gunman has shot two students dead and injured eight others at a Philippine high school, before killing himself. The two deceased victims were 14-year-old pupils at a school in Banga in the southern province of Mindanao, the local mayor told the BBC. Albert Palencia said four of the injured were in critical condition. The education department said in a statement it was "deeply concerned" by the reported incident which took place on Friday afternoon at Banga National High School. He hit 10 students before killing himself." Classes have been suspended "in all levels in the entire municipality of Banga" due to the shooting, disaster management authorities said in a statement.
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In June, three students were killed and more were injured after their peers opened fire at a high school in central Philippines. Broadly speaking, school shootings are rare, but today's incident marks the third deadly campus shooting in the last four months.
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