Stabbing spree leaves 4 dead in the Philippines
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October 23, 2010, Saturday
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AN ex-convict stabbed a teacher and several students yesterday at an elementary school in the southern Philippines in a melee that left four people dead, including the attacker, and six wounded, police said.
The man, who appeared to be mentally disturbed, barged into a room at the Talisayan Elementary School in Zamboanga City and fatally stabbed a teacher, police Superintendent Hado Edding said.
The attacker, Fely Mateo, then went to another room, herded 5th grade students into a restroom and stabbed them one by one until parents wrestled with him and stabbed him with his knife.
Killed in the attack were a teacher, a student, the attacker, and an elderly man who was among those who tried to grab the attacker's knife, Edding said.
Four students and two teachers were being treated at Zamboanga's Brent Hospital, including an 11-year-old girl and one teacher in serious condition, said a doctor contacted by phone.
Edding said the attacker was a former murder convict who had served his sentence. It was not clear what prompted the attack.
Meanwhile, Philippine security forces said a Muslim separatist group was behind a bus attack on southern Mindanao island that killed 10 people.
They said Thursday's bomb blast was aimed at sabotaging peace negotiations between Manila and the country's largest Muslim separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Attacks by the rogue faction - two officials were killed and a soldier wounded in an ambush also on Thursday - have added to concerns about the peace process, as talks with the new government to end the four-decade insurgency are yet to restart.
The government of President Benigno Aquino, in office since late June, said it wanted to resume talks with the MILF after the fasting month of Ramadan in September.
Philippine army intelligence officials said they thought an Islamist extremist group linked to the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militant network was behind Thursday's attacks to create tension and delay any resumption of negotiations in Malaysia.
The man, who appeared to be mentally disturbed, barged into a room at the Talisayan Elementary School in Zamboanga City and fatally stabbed a teacher, police Superintendent Hado Edding said.
The attacker, Fely Mateo, then went to another room, herded 5th grade students into a restroom and stabbed them one by one until parents wrestled with him and stabbed him with his knife.
Killed in the attack were a teacher, a student, the attacker, and an elderly man who was among those who tried to grab the attacker's knife, Edding said.
Four students and two teachers were being treated at Zamboanga's Brent Hospital, including an 11-year-old girl and one teacher in serious condition, said a doctor contacted by phone.
Edding said the attacker was a former murder convict who had served his sentence. It was not clear what prompted the attack.
Meanwhile, Philippine security forces said a Muslim separatist group was behind a bus attack on southern Mindanao island that killed 10 people.
They said Thursday's bomb blast was aimed at sabotaging peace negotiations between Manila and the country's largest Muslim separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Attacks by the rogue faction - two officials were killed and a soldier wounded in an ambush also on Thursday - have added to concerns about the peace process, as talks with the new government to end the four-decade insurgency are yet to restart.
The government of President Benigno Aquino, in office since late June, said it wanted to resume talks with the MILF after the fasting month of Ramadan in September.
Philippine army intelligence officials said they thought an Islamist extremist group linked to the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militant network was behind Thursday's attacks to create tension and delay any resumption of negotiations in Malaysia.
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