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The Manila hostage crisis, officially known as the Rizal Park hostage-taking incident ( Tagalog: Pagbibihag ng bus sa Maynila ), [ 3] 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 ...
Motive. Alleged corruption and labor practice of the hostage taker's former employer. On March 2, 2020, 40-year-old Archie Paray, who worked as a security guard at the Greenhills shopping mall complex in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, the Philippines, took 55 people hostage at the administration office on the second floor of the Virra Mall.
Abu Sayyaf. The Dos Palmas kidnappings was a hostage crisis in southern Philippines that began with the seizing of twenty hostages from the affluent Dos Palmas Resort on a private island in Honda Bay, Palawan, by members of Abu Sayyaf on May 27, 2001, and resulted in the deaths of at least five of the original hostages.
Manila hostage crisis: 23 August 2010: Quirino Grandstand, Manila 8 (tourists) Hong Kong tourists killed by Rolando Mendoza, a disgruntled policeman, after a 9-hour standoff on a tour bus. Mendoza was killed by a police sniper during a rescue mission. Rendon massacre (Family murders) 12 October 2011: Santa Felomina, San Pablo, Laguna: 4
2010 Discovery headquarters hostage crisis: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States 1 September 2010: About 5 hours Manila hostage crisis: Manila, Philippines: 23 August 2010: 10 hours 30 mins 2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre: Lahore, Pakistan: 28 May 2010: Some hours October 2009 Lahore attacks: Lahore, Pakistan: 15 October 2009: 1 hour 30 mins
The 1989 Philippine coup attempt was the most serious attempted coup d'état against the government of Philippine President Corazon Aquino and part of a series of coup attempts against her. It was staged beginning December 1, 1989, by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines belonging to the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) and ...
There was a call to postpone the proposed economic sanctions on the Philippines as a result of the poor handling of the Manila hostage crisis three years before. [37] [38] The Legislative Council of Hong Kong approved on 15 November 2013 an injection of HK$40m to the government's Disaster Relief Fund for charity organisations to apply. [39]
Her first high-profile case was the Manila hostage crisis, where eight Hong Kong nationals were killed. [4] During the 2015 Iglesia ni Cristo leadership controversy and its subsequent protests, de Lima was criticized for meddling in the internal affairs of the denomination. [9] [10]