Have you watched the news(Hong Thai travel hostage drama)?

this is just bad. am sure filipinos are afraid right now. they are so pathetic.

I think the police officers should be blamed for mishandling the situation which I think should not have ended in bloodshed. I watched the youtube and seen how the police took the drastic action of breaking the windows without considering the safety of the hostages who are seated next to the windows. They took too long to negotiate and when the lone hostage taker appeared on the door of the bus to release one of the hostages the police should have immediately shoot his leg to injure him but not to kill. With his injuries the hostage drama would have ended peacefully and no life lost. The police officers have created more tension by their unprofessional ways of handling the situation which only provoked the the gunman to act aggressively to shoot the hostages randomly. I believe if it was handled diplomatically, I believe the gunman would have surrendered as he was not all that 'notorious' by the way he released some of the hostages. He has given enough time for the authorities to come with something concrete to his demand.

the hostage-taking incident was mishandled. the police authorities looked very amateurish. i guess there was no real understanding of the situation. the hostage-taker was in his frame of mind. he had a simple demand. the government authorities could have tackled that, but the ex-police should face the consequences of his action. it was terrible how it ended. it must not end like that. not again, not anymore.

The whole world is disappointed. I was crying..heads will roll on what happened yesterday. I know part to blame is the media people but the handling of the PNP was the worst. It was a 12 hour hostage drama enough time to make a plan and to prepare but nothing was done! And they even break one of the rule in a hostage drama.."Don't Agitate the Hostage Taker!" Anyway have you seen Mayor Lim in the scene? Where is he? He should be the one leading the police because he's the Mayor but you didn't see even his shadow. A former MPD-SWAT Chief now a judge (Jimmy Santiago) says the MPD totally mishandled the situation. The Chief or the OIC in that situation don't know anything and he even said that someone will be liable in that incident. I was hoping that our President will take action on this matter but he even tried to blame the media people when it was obvious that the PNP lacks knowledge on how to handle the situation. In Filipino word "MGA BUGOK!" all they know is extort and tortured people. I think the President owes an apology to the Hongkong Government Because for me, he was part to blame! I just hope the next time our President face the people he will tell them who is responsible in mishandling this hostage drama!

Before I would write my comments about the move of the policemen, my apology. I dont find it very efficient as you could see it resulted to 7 people killed. Its really an irresponsible move and it lack of intellectual ability to solve situation like that. I am afraid now that our policemen are really not capable of protecting us. They are trained but what happened to their trainings. It seems that they are not courageous to fought back for our safety and security. All this things would have resolved properly if the policemen authorities handled it seriously. I am really thinking what is the requirement of accepting policemen. Are they accepting policemen with a certain qualities needed or they are just accepting policemen without knowing and gauging if this person is capable of doing this things.

i am very sad ,we have lost many lives ,slight error in handling this type of situation has resulted in loss of lives ,police should have been more careful.

This is a real disaster. Today my colleagues are talking about this issue. We think the rescue is totally a failure. We don't understand what's wrong with the rescue team. At the beginning the hijack person still had a peaceful attitude, and actually his requirement was not that much. What's wrong with the negotiation? This person was not asking for millions of dollars. He just wanted to be back to work. And at the end the situation was out of control. The negotiation and the rescue are fatal failing. As to the hostage taker, now I wonder whether he is innocent. He did this because he had unfair judgment. He used the mistake to correct another mistake. At first his purpose was not to kill the innocent people. If he wanted, he could have killed more. In brief, this situation could solve better. I just don't understand why it will have an ending like this.

I couldn't take off my eyes on the tv, watching the hostage drama. In my opinion the authorities made a mistake when they took the family of the hostage taker by force. That made him mad and became frenzy. Its all start there. And if only the media was responsible to their action not to televised every little detail outside. Knowing the hostage taker also watching there moves over the tv inside the bus.