A group of hostage-takers promised to release Wednesday night 31 remaining daycare students and four teachers in Manila whom they seized aboard a tourist bus that was supposed to take them to a field trip in Tagaytay.
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One of the suspects who hostaged at least 32 school-children and two teachers aboard a tourist bus in front of the Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall on Wednesday morning, demanded free education for day-care center children.
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A tourist bus with 32 school children and two teachers were hijacked by two armed men in front of the Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall.
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There are conflicting reports on the case of Filipina businesswoman Josiebeth Foroozan whom the Nigerian Police reported had been abducted in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt as she got out of her car on February 7, 2007. But her abduction has been denied by a Foreign Affairs official in Manila, Philippines.
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The Philippine government is still denying it postponed two major regional summit meetings due to fear of a terrorist attack, even as reports emerge that a car bomb plot had been uncovered days before the summits were to open. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hong Kong, Manila is sticking to its insistence that an approaching typhoon was the reason for the postponement.
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