After the suspect started shooting, students alerted the principle, who was wounded while “courageously” intervening, the prosecutor said. During the attack, some students hid at the school and others were evacuated. I was with a buddy and we took refuge upstairs,” said the young man, identified only as Andreas. An employee of sports chain Decathlon, which has a branch less than 500 meters from the high school, said he’d seen about 40 high school students leaving and gathering in a nearby parking lot. The alert is part of a system implemented by the government after the deadly November 2015 attacks in Paris.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 16, 2017 14:23 UTC