Daycare owner takes Manila bus hostage;(Situation over)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:14 am
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/
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/