Manila, June 27 -- The June 22 school shooting in Tacloban City where three students were killed and 20 others were injured underscored the need for continued national discussion on terror grooming, radicalization and violent extremism, a ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) said on Saturday.

In a statement, NTF-ELCAC Executive Director, Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr., said such issues are no longer exclusive to the battlefield, to the armed fighting in the countryside or to organized terrorist networks.

"More and more, it is becoming clear that the pathways to violence are now passing through classrooms, chat groups, online communities, social media feeds, and homes where act...