A police investigator checks the crime scene at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon city, Philippines, Sunday, July 24, 2022. At least three people, including a former Philippine town mayor, were killed and another was wounded in a brazen attack on Sunday by a gunman in a university campus in the capital region, officials said.
The sprawling university was put under lockdown and the graduation rite at the law school on campus was canceled, police said. She died in the attack together with her aide and a university guard. Furigay’s daughter, who was supposed to attend the graduation, was wounded and taken to a hospital, a police report said.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, who was supposed to be a speaker at the ceremony, was advised to turn back en route to the event, officials said.