PIKIT, Cotabato, Philippines —The municipal government here on Wednesday ordered a three-day suspension of classes at all levels here following the shooting of three high school students on
their way home on Monday, the latest in a spate of killings that rocked this Cotabato town since last year.
On Monday noon, Fahad Dilabuan Guiamalon, 13, and his two schoolmates at Pikit National High School, were walking home to Barangay Macabual for lunch when an unidentified man started stalking them and later shot them from behind, said Police Lt. Col. John Miridel Calinga, Pikit police chief.Guiamalon died while being taken to a local hospital while his companions, both 12-year-old students, were wounded and taken to Cruzado Medical Hospital here for treatment.
Sultan said the suspension order covered schools in villages that already joined the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao , noting that he had coordinated with BARMM officials on its implementation. Pikit has been rocked by a series of shootings that killed ordinary residents, among them tricycle drivers, storekeepers and street vendors, since last year. The unsolved killings continued to puzzle the local police and town officials.
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