Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Busload of students held hostage in Philippines

MSNBC.com reports:
Photo by Bullit Marquez / AP
A hostage gestures for a cell phone as a grenade is held close to her by a hostage-taker inside a bus in front of the Manila City Hall, on Wednesday, in the Philippines.
A man with a history of attention-grabbing stunts took a busload of students and teachers hostage from his day-care center and drove them to City Hall Wednesday, keeping them onboard for hours and demanding better lives for the children.

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