Daycare owner takes Manila bus hostage;(Situation over)

[Brent]

MANILA, Philippines - A day-care center owner hijacked a busload of his students and teachers and drove them to Manila’s city hall Wednesday to demand better housing and education for the children.

Jun Ducat and at least one other hostage-taker scribbled in large letters on a sheet of paper, taped to the bus’ windshield, that they were holding 32 children and two teachers and were armed with two grenades, an assault rifle and a pistol, officer Mark Andal said.

They said they were demanding improved housing and education for 145 children in a day-care center in Manila’s poor Tondo district where the incident, televised live around the world, appeared to have begun.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17822865/

[Miss Mary]

Whoa - what a story. At first you think he has the best interests of these children at heart. Then you read the second paragraph.

I think the world has gone mad.

[Chacor]

They have been released unharmed.

[cycloneye]

Thankfully,any of the children were harmed and all ended peacefully.

http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03 ... index.html

[Miss Mary]

Thankfully the children are all safe. But what a terrifying experience for them.

[TexasStooge]

Just goes to show how deranged this man is.