Cotabato City, Aug. 11 -- Police authorities in Lanao del Sur have deployed plainclothes and uniformed personnel near the lone public tertiary school in Balabagan town following the Aug. 4 killing of a school teacher.

In a radio interview on Monday, Lanao del Sur police director Col. Caezar Cabuhat said he held a dialogue with administrators, parents and students of Balabagan Trade School.

He assured them of the police deployment to prevent future violence against school officials.

Teacher Danilo Barba Jr., who hailed from Trento, Agusan del Sur, was gunned down on Monday morning in front of Balabagan Trade School in Barangay Narra by a lone gunman armed with a .45-caliber pistol. Barba was killed on the spot.

Cabuhat said a Grade 11 ...