MANILA: At least three people, including a former mayor of a southern Philippine town, have been killed in an attack on a college campus in the country’s capital region that a police official called an apparent assassination.
The attacker opened fire on Sunday at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City as law students and their families gathered for a graduation ceremony.
Those killed included Rosita Furigay, a former mayor of Lamitan town on the southern Basilan Island. Her aide and a university guard were also among the dead, officials said.
“He looks like he was a determined assassin,” Quezon city police chief Remus Medina told reporters about the attacker, who was identified as a resident of Lamitan city. –Agencies
