The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has provided initial cash and psychosocial assistance to the family of a 13-year-old student who was stabbed to death by another teenager near Las Piñas National High School.
Social Welfare Assistant Secretary and spokesperson Irene Dumlao said Sunday that the agency extended its condolences to the victim’s family.
“Nakikiramay ang buong pamunuan ng DSWD sa pamilya ng estudyante na nasawi sa pananaksak sa Las Piñas National High School (The entire leadership of the DSWD extends its condolences to the family of the student who died in a stabbing incident at Las Piñas National High School),” Dumlao said.
Through its field office in the National Capital Region, the DSWD provided the family with initial cash assistance and two boxes of family food packs.
The Las Piñas City government also extended burial assistance to the family of the student, who was stabbed on July 31.
Dumlao said the DSWD and its attached agency, the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council, would continue monitoring the case and ensure that proper protocols are followed in handling the child in conflict with the law.
Reports said the victim and the attacker had a disagreement before the stabbing.
In June, two separate stabbing incidents involving minors occurred inside two schools, leaving student victims injured.
A shooting incident at a high school in Tacloban involving two teenage suspects also left three people dead.