Three people were killed Sunday in a rare shooting at a university in the Philippine capital Manila, officials said, in what appears to have been a targeted assassination.
The incident happened at Ateneo de Manila University as law students and their families arrived for a graduation ceremony that was to be attended by the Supreme Court chief justice.
Rose Furigay, a former city mayor in the restive southern province of Basilan and whose daughter was among the graduates, was killed, authorities said.
Furigay's executive assistant and a university security guard were also killed.
Her daughter was wounded and is in a "stable condition" in hospital, police said.
"We are quite distraught and bereaved by this occurrence," Joy Belmonte, the mayor of a local government unit where the shooting happened, told AFP.
The alleged gunman fled the scene by forcing a driver out of their vehicle, before abandoning it and continuing his getaway in a jeepney, police said.
He was eventually detained near a church.
Police recovered two handguns and a silencer allegedly used by the suspect, who they identified as Chao Tiao Yumul and said had a "long history" of legal disputes with Furigay.
Yumul was on a bail for a cyberlibel charge.
"This looks to be a determined assassin," said Police Brigadier General Remus Medina told reporters, describing the incident as "isolated".
