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- A teacher from Albay slain inside the school.
- She and two other students were sleeping in the principal’s office when the attacker entered.
Mylene Veras-Durante, a public school teacher, was killed after she shielded two students from a knife-wielding assailant who attacked them inside their school in Pio Duran, Albay, last Tuesday, October 9.
According to a statement by Police Senior Inspector Mayvell Barcia-Gonzales, the teacher tried to save the lives of the students by covering them.
The 23-year-old, mother of two, and two grade 6 students were sleeping inside the principal’s office of the Oringon Elementary School in Barangay Oringon when the assailant entered the room at 11PM.
The suspect was said to be a 17-year-old grade 12 student from another school. He was arrested the day after the attack. According to Gonzales, after the initial attack, the two students managed to flee and lock themselves in another room.
The suspect ran after the students but later on returned to Durante, who was still at the Principal’s office, and stabbed her to death.
Stab wounds were found on the students and they were immediately brought to Pio Duran Memorial District Hospital. The police said that the principal’s office has served as the teacher’s sleeping quarters for the past two years.
