00:00From the red vehicle, this woman is taken out, slowly lifted and placed into a sidecar,
00:08bleeding after being shot while inside her car in front of a school in Mid-Sayap, North Cotabato.
00:14The woman in the video, a school principal, the gunman, two men on a motorcycle.
00:21The Department of Education or DepEd strongly condemns the heinous crime,
00:25calling it not only an attack on an educator, but an assault on the sanctity of schools as safe zones for learning.
00:33DepEd is now working with authorities to arrest the suspects,
00:36providing financial assistance to the victim's family and psychological first aid to students and teachers who witnessed the attack.
00:44Earlier, a teacher in Lanao del Sur was killed by a grade 11 student for allegedly failing him.
00:50On August 7, an 18-year-old man went inside a classroom in Nueva Ecea and gunned down a 15-year-old student.
00:59DepEd has ordered the tightening of school security, stricter entry and exit controls,
01:04bag inspections, firearm bans, and reinforced mental health and learner support programs.
01:10In a memorandum circular, the DILG urged LGUs to deploy more barangay tanods to schools for traffic management,
01:18patrols, security monitoring, and immediate reporting to police.
01:22In Quezon City, an anti-bullying and anti-discrimination campaign launched to make schools safer for children.
01:28Lola Irene makes sure to personally bring and fetch her 7-year-old grandchild to and from school.
01:34While Benilda always reminds her grade school son.
01:51This is Sharm Zespina from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.
