Philippines holds first active shooter drills after school shooting killed three

Nationwide active threat simulation drills were conducted on July 15 during the National Safe Schools Summit at Manila Science High School. -Education Department

MANILA: The Philippines has begun holding active school shooter drills after a rare act of violence in Tacloban City last month during which two teenage students opened fire, killing three schoolmates and injuring 20 others.

On Wednesday (July 15), at one educational campus in Manila, hundreds of students and teachers practised barricading classrooms with desks and chairs and staying silent as an armed actor wearing a black hoodie scoured the halls and rooms.