Three students, one male and two female, were killed and 13 others wounded when two students opened fire inside San Jose National High School in Tacloban City at around 9 a.m. on June 22, 2026, police said. The attack began just over an hour after classes had started, with gunfire reaching two classrooms.

Officers from Police Station 1 of the Tacloban City Police Office responded immediately, the Police Regional Office in Eastern Visayas (PRO-8) said. All 13 wounded students, seven male and six female, were in stable condition across four hospitals: seven at the Leyte Provincial Hospital, three at the Tacloban City Hospital, two at the Eastern Visayas Medical Center, and one at the ACE Medical Center. Of the three killed, two were found dead at the scene and the third was declared dead on arrival at a hospital.

Police are still working to confirm bullying as the probable motive, citing in their initial report the claim of one suspect that he had been bullied. PRO-8 said both suspects, aged 14 and 15 and now detained at Tacloban City Police Station 1, have no prior police record.

Recovered at the scene were a 9mm pistol and a .38 caliber revolver. A police spokesperson said ownership of the 9mm pistol had been traced to a policewoman assigned in Eastern Visayas, while the .38 revolver is registered to a security agency in Cebu City. The spokesperson said charges await any officer found to own a weapon used in the killings.