Philippines tightens security at malls after US rampage

The senseless theatre-shooting in US has shaken people all around the world. Philippines specifically is tightening security at all shopping malls.  58 people lost their lives. A 17-year-old Philippino also got shot in the rampage as informed by presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda to the Philippines government on radio.

'We are asking mall operators to have security guards thoroughly search bags in order that we can avoid a similar incident,' he said on Sunday.

'We hope and pray that he will recover from the gunshot wounds,' he said of the teenager, whom press in the Philippines - a former US colony - named as Ryan Lumba.