A devastating double fatality at a Catholic junior high school in the southern Philippines has marked the second school shooting to hit the Southeast Asian nation in just two months, leaving local communities in shock and reigniting debates over youth access to violent digital content. Local officials confirmed on Tuesday that a student attending the campus in Zamboanga City killed a fellow classmate with an illegally smuggled firearm before taking his own life. Zamboanga City Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso told local radio reporters that the teenage perpetrator managed to sneak a .45-calibre pistol into his classroom undetected. The shooter first opened fire on a seated teacher, who narrowly escaped injury when all shots missed the target. He then moved to an adjacent classroom, where he fired at and fatally wounded another student before dying by suicide, Olaso added. According to reporting from Agence France-Presse, local media have circulated purported livestream footage of the attack that appears to capture the incident from the shooter’s first-person perspective, showing the gun barrel moving down a school hallway. Local law enforcement and emergency response teams have since secured the campus, confirming that the situation is fully under control and there are no further active threats to students or staff. This latest tragedy comes exactly two months after a separate school shooting in Tacloban City, located in the Philippines’ central region, that killed three students and left 20 more injured. That attack was carried out by two teenage boys, and investigators discovered that one of the suspects had repeatedly played a violent sandbox video game called Gorebox. Following the Tacloban City incident, Philippine authorities implemented a national ban on Gorebox, and the country’s Senate launched a formal investigation into the link between violent digital media and youth violence. The Philippines is not alone in grappling with this growing crisis across Southeast Asia. Governments throughout the region have moved in recent months to draft new restrictions on minor access to social media platforms, citing a range of documented harmful effects on adolescent mental health and behavior. Earlier this August, a teenage attacker in Thailand killed eight people and himself in a school shooting, with local investigators confirming the perpetrator regularly consumed graphic violent content through social media platforms. This string of back-to-back school violence incidents has put policymakers across the region under growing pressure to enact stricter regulations on violent digital content, while communities mourn the latest lives lost to youth perpetrated gun violence.