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  1. Manila hostage crisis

    The Manila hostage crisis, officially known as the Rizal Park hostage-taking incident (Tagalog: Pagbibihag ng bus sa Maynila), took place when a disgruntled former Philippine National Police officer named Rolando Mendoza hijacked a tourist bus in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines, on August 23, 2010.The bus carried 25 people: 20 tourists, a tour guide from Hong Kong, and four local Filipinos.

  2. Gunman in the Philippines ends standoff by killing 8, wounding 7

    Manila police said Rolando Mendoza, a former police officer upset at having lost his job, took hostage a busload of tourists from Hong Kong Monday and killed eight of them before being shot dead ...

  3. Hong Thai Travel Services

    Hong Thai Travel Services ... On August 23, 2010, a twelve-hour-long hostage incident on one of the company's buses in Manila, Philippines, occurred. Twenty-five people, part of a tour group from Hong Kong, were taken hostage on a bus by the gunman, Rolando Mendoza, a former police officer.

  4. The Manila Hostage Crisis incident, 11 years after the fact

    The Manila Hostage Crisis, also known as the Rizal Park hostage-taking incident, has lasted nine hours on August 23, 2010. From morning to night, it had the attention of nearly every watchful eye that day. ... 25 people were on that Hong Thai Travel bus. 20 Hong Kong tourists and their tour guide, three Filipino tour guides, and the bus driver ...

  5. Who were accountable for the Manila hostage crisis?

    The probe body noted that there was no relevant intelligence information about the Hong Thai Travel bus, i.e. the strength of the window panels and the emergency button to open the main door. Pursuant to the Palace legal team’s recommendations, the Napolcom filed administrative charges against MPD-SWAT team head Chief Inspector Santiago ...

  6. Police kill gunman to end Manila hostage bus drama

    The Hong Thai Travel Services Ltd general manager, Susanna Lau, told Hong Kong's Cable TV the tour group had left the Chinese territory of Hong Kong on August 20 for a visit to Manila and was scheduled to fly back to Hong Kong today. She said a Hong Kong tour guide and 20 tourists from the territory, three children and 17 adults, were on the bus.

  7. August 23, 2010: 7 Hong Kong tourists and guide killed in Manila bus

    Their tour company, Hong Thai Travel, became aware of the unfolding drama when the tour guide made a secret phone call to the company from the back of the bus, unknown to the gunman.

  8. Gunman, 7 Others Dead in Manila Hostage Drama

    He said the hostage-taker was killed with a sniper shot to the head after he wounded a police sharpshooter. ... Hong Thai Travel Services Ltd. General Manager Susanna Lau told Hong Kong's Cable TV ...

  9. Manila hostage crisis

    The Manila hostage crisis ... Data provided by the Hong Thai Travel. Advertisement poster of the tour group Archived 2009-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese) Official statement about the travel insurance Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese) This page was last changed on 17 March 2024, at 07:17. ...

  10. Taking the Hong Kong Tour Bus Hostage Tragedy in Manila to the ICJ

    Around 10:30 a.m., the Hong Kong tour guide on the bus informed the Hong Thai Travel Agency in Hong Kong of the situation by telephone.20 An hour later, Mendoza freed the Filipino tour guide and six tourists: an elderly woman who complained of stom ach pains, her diabetic husband, and a woman and her two children, as well as a third child

  11. Families sue Philippines over bungled bus hostage rescue

    Yik and Chan filed a separate claim against Hong Thai Travel Services for negligence and breach of duty. Chan's hands were injured and Yik's lower jaw, left thumb and right index finger were ...

  12. Ex-cop holds tourist bus passengers hostage in Manila

    The hostages are passengers of the Hong Thai travel bus. The freed hostages were brought to the community precinct near the Rizal Park, where they were given medical attention. ... 2007 hostage-taking It can be recalled that civil engineer Jun Ducat, a day-care center owner, held more than 30 youngsters and teachers hostage on a bus some time ...

  13. Hostage probe committee to inspect ill-fated Hong Thai Travel bus

    Published September 8, 2010 8:56am. The Incident Investigation and Review Commitee will head to Camp Bagong Diwa -- the National Capital Region Police Office's headquarters in Taguig City -- on Wednesday afternoon to inspect the ill-fated Hong Thai Travel tour bus hijacked by dismissed police officer Rolando Mendoza last August 23.

  14. Hostage crisis affects Hong Kong tourism (10:21 a.m.)

    Hong Thai Travel Services, one of the biggest outbound tour agencies in Hong Kong, said it has sustained a big loss and it would take a year for the agency to recover. The agency was the one who organized the tour of the Hong Kong tourists who were held hostage by dismissed police officer Rolando Mendoza last August 23 in Manila.

  15. Nine killed in Philippines hostage stand-off

    Hong Thai Travel Services Ltd. General Manager Susanna Lau told Hong Kong's Cable TV the tour group had left the Chinese territory of Hong Kong on August 20 for a visit to Manila and was scheduled ...

  16. Philippines police: Authorities botched hostage rescue

    The Hong Kong-based tour guide was among those who died, Hong Thai Travel said in a statement. Some of the victims were insured and would be compensated, the travel agency said.

  17. Hostage victims can't sue Manila, judge decrees

    Yik and Chan filed a separate claim against Hong Thai Travel Services for negligence and breach of duty. Chan's hands were injured and Yik's lower jaw, left thumb and right index finger were ...

  18. Hong Kong tourists held hostage in the Philippines, nine killed

    The bus of 2010 Manila hostage crisis. Image: Sakuradate. ... The Hong Kong government consulted Hong Thai Travel and decided to send a plane to take the survivors back to Hong Kong.

  19. List of hostage crises

    31 October 2010. About 4 hours. 2010 Discovery headquarters hostage crisis. Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. 1 September 2010. About 5 hours. Manila hostage crisis. Manila, Philippines. 23 August 2010.

  20. Drawing attention to captives on the first National Hostage and

    As the black and yellow flag of hostage and wrongful detainees flies alongside our Stars and Stripes today, let us remember the legacy of brave Americans held captive abroad simply because of ...

  21. Taking the Hong Kong Tour Bus Hostage Tragedy in Manila to the ...

    Around 10:30 a.m., the Hong Kong tour guide on the bus informed the Hong Thai Travel Agency in Hong Kong of the situation by telephone. 20 . An hour later, Mendoza freed the Filipino tour guide and six tourists: an elderly woman who complained of stom-

  22. Moscow theater hostage crisis

    The Moscow theater hostage crisis (also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege) was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater in Moscow by Chechen terrorists on 23 October 2002, resulting in the taking of 912 hostages. The attackers, led by Movsar Barayev, claimed allegiance to the Islamist separatist movement in Chechnya. They demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to ...

  23. Crocus City Hall attack

    Russia has been subject to major terrorist attacks starting from a series of explosions that hit Moscow apartment blocks in 1999, followed by the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002, the Beslan school siege in 2004 and the Domodedovo International Airport bombing in 2011. There have been at least a half-dozen attacks in or near Moscow by Muslim terrorists, most of them Chechen militants ...