flash report!!! school bus held hostage near manila cityhall

[shadow]

ngayon live sa TV and radio...kawawa mga bata....

[OTEP]

Holy crap, pano nangyari ito? Live sa ANC now.

[leinahtan]

32 students, 2 teachers held hostage by 3 men. Ano na naman ba ito??

[BlueBimmer]

amff ano ba naman yan...lapit pa sa city hall...

[artpogi]

Was reading awhile back, I hope the PNP don't screw this one up.

[mazdamazda]

MANILA, Philippines -- A school bus with at least 32 students and two teachers were taken hostage by still unidentified armed suspects in Manila Wednesday morning, reports culled by INQUIRER.net said.

Police Officer 1 Mark Andal of the Manila Police District Operations center said the bus was bound for Universidad de Manila but a report on local television said the bus was on its way to Tagaytay City for a field trip when the armed men held its students and teachers hostage at past 9 a.m.

Live television footage of the incident showed a letter posted on one of the windows informing authorities that there were two teachers, 32 children, and three armed hostage-takers on board and a demand for the “education of 145 children from the Musmos Daycare.”

The same television report said the suspects, in their letter, claimed that they were armed with a grenade, Uzi, and .45-caliber pistols.

The same report said the driver, Deogracias Bugarin, had been forced out of bus.

Errr... ang labo naman ng reason nila...

[kotiko]

SYET NAKAKAPIKON! These kinds of crap ruin the country's image!

[shadow]

nag hostage nyun mismong may ari yata ng day care center...demand niya is to guarantee education for all the students na na hostage niya....

[XUV-AT2002]

No TV or radio here in my workplace. Please give relevant details as it happen thanks. Let's pray for peaceful settlement. Thnaks

[JohnM]

Bilis kumalat ng balita: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Gunmen fleeing from a hold-up seized a bus carrying more than 30 students and teachers in downtown Manila on Wednesday and police surrounded the vehicle, officials said.

Hostage-takers scribbled on a piece of paper, visible through the bus window, that they were holding 32 children and two teachers and were armed with grenades, an assault rifle and a pistol, officer Mark Andal said.

TV footage showed the young children waving from the windows and a woman standing with a gunman near her brandishing a grenade.

Police encircled the stalled vehicle near Manila's city hall and officials said they had begun negotiating with the attackers.

Manila police chief Reynaldo Varilla said officials believe that two gunmen were fleeing a hold-up and seized the bus to avoid capture.

"They saw a bus loaded with pupils," he told DZMM radio. "Right now negotiations are ongoing. We hope we can have them surrender peacefully so no one will be hurt."

There was no immediate word on the ages of the students or details on the reported hold-up.

[claRkEnt]

and worse is, sa CNN, fleeing holduppers daw yung hostage-takers. Yun kasi ang unang statement nung police officer. Dapat wala muna info pag di sure eh. Takaw sa publicity.

[Taurus]

Ang gulo na yata sabi sa inq

demand for the “education of 145 children from the Musmos Daycare.”


tapos sa CNN,

two gunmen were fleeing a hold-up and seized the bus to avoid capture




Damn, i just hope everone will be safe... :superhero:

[NazQ]

man.. :eeK: kala ko summer vacation na..

[boybi]

Just turned on the TV. Saw Sen. Bong Revilla going inside the bus. But before that, he was talking on a landline phone?? Saan galing yun?

The students seem not aware of the danger of their situation. Some can be seen smiling and waving at the crowd surrounding the bus.

[badsekktor]

hope things would be ok.... kawawa naman yun mga bata

[artpogi]

It seems Bong knows one of the hostage takers

Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr has arrived on Tuesday morning at the scene in Manila where armed men have seized a bus with 32 schoolchildren, aged seven to 15 years old, and two teachers.

One of the hostage-takers identified as Jun Ducat had asked that he be allowed to talk to Revilla.

Revilla told radio station dzBB that he knows Ducat as a "good man" who is the godfather of one of his children.

The senator said he had known of Ducat since he was a governor of Cavite province.

The bus has been surrounded by police and is in an area between Plaza Lawton and the Manila City Hall. -GMANews.TV

[XTO]

where is mayor atienza? ngayon dapat sila magpa-andar mag-ama.
trauma yan for the kids, hope ma-solve agad ito ng walang masasaktan.

[RedHorse]

nag litany na hostage taker.. revilla inside the bus... rah rah gma! si hostage taker

ot: kay bong revilla ba ang black escalade?.. cnn shuts video coverage ng dumating si revilla

[Zeus]

anu na ang nangyari dito?

[Hanren]

"OA" naman itong isang hijacker na ito. He puts the lives of these children in jeopardy and yet professes his undying love for them..baka tatakbo itong congressman o mayor..hayyy..

some excertps from CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html)

....."I love these kids; that's why I am here," one of the hostage-takers, identifying himself as Jun Ducat, told DZMM radio by cell phone. "We have a field trip. I invited the children for a field trip.
"You can be assured that I cannot hurt the children. In case I need to shed blood, I will not be the first to fire. I am telling the policemen, have pity on these children."....