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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
3 cops, Sayyaf killed in Camp Crame hostage drama
MANILA -- (Updated 10:55 a.m.) Three policemen and an Abu Sayyaf guerrilla were killed Tuesday at the end of a hostage crisis in the national police headquarters Camp Crame.
"Three policemen and the hostage taker were killed," said police chief investigator Eduardo Matillano, adding that three other officers were wounded in the three-hour hostage crisis.
The Abu Sayyaf guerrilla, identified as Buyungan Byngkak, was being held for the bombing of a pub in Mindanao that left several people including a US serviceman dead last year.
He grabbed a rifle from a guard to begin a three-hour standoff with hundreds of police special forces men outside the jail.
One police hostage was shot in the head while two of the police officers who came to his aid were killed as they stormed the building, police spokesmen said.
The hostage-taker was later shot dead, while three other policemen were wounded, said police chief investigator Eduardo Matillano.
Less than three months ago, convicted Indonesian Jemaah Islamiyah bomber Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi escaped from his prison cell inside the headquarters while Australian Prime Minister John Howard was visiting the country. (AFP) |
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