Seven tourists from Hong Kong were killed and eight injured at the end of an 11-hour hostage crisis in the Philippine capital of Manila.
The stand-off began early yesterday after a police captain sacked from the service seized a tourist bus to protest against his dismissal.
The death of the tourists is a blow to the eight-week-old administration of Benigno Aquino III, the Philippine president, who is struggling to attract foreign investment and tourism to a country where almost half of the population earn less than $2 a day.
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