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Archive Home > 2010 > August > 24 > Bloody end to televised bus siege

Bloody end to televised bus siege

Ex-policeman seizes bus to get his job back, then kills 8 hostages and self

By Jim Gomez / The Bulletin
August 24, 2010

MANILA, Philippines — It looked like a hostage rescue in slow motion: Police creeping up on the bus with sledgehammers and smashing first one window, then another, then trying and failing to rip open the door.

When they finally got inside, authorities said, they found nine bodies — those of....

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