August 23, 2010 : Hostage-taking, Public Security's incompetents and disgrace.

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August 23, 2010, an armed former policeman hijacks a bus of tourists [which were mostly chinese] to get reinstated in the force and also to prove that he is innocent from his cases. It was a 11-hour long crime, the people blamed the Public security for their incompetence in the situation, also people blamed the Media for giving a live report of everything where inside the bus the hostage taker can see all activities happening in the perimeter. The hostage-taker got agitated when his family was in custody of the police, forced to answer questions. [he was also able to see this in the bus] By 10pm or so, the police THEN started to act, because they failed in negotiating with the hostage taker, they THEN attacked, first firing through the windows, but the hostage taker used his hostages as "Human Shields" and so the police then threw tear gas inside the bus, after a rain of bullets, it was confirmed that hostage taker was shot by the sniper... still after it all ended in blood bath, 9 tourists dead and the hostage taker. President noynoy gave his deepest condolences to the families of the victims soon after the crime, there were 4 confirmed survivors. HK and China were frustrated about the crime and blamed the public security as well, therefore putting a black mark on the Philippines in travel agencies. The hostage taker succeeded in proving one thing though, that the Public Security was incompetent of ever doing their jobs.