Cop shoots hostage taker, saves girl
For almost three hours, a 43-year-old man armed with a bolo held hostage an 11-year-old girl in Daanbantayan town in northern Cebu.
For almost three hours, a 43-year-old man armed with a bolo held hostage an 11-year-old girl in Daanbantayan town in northern Cebu.
Authorities are looking into the identity of the man who was killed following a hostage-taking incident in Pasay City Tuesday that wounded two people, police said Wednesday.
A man who allegedly had difficulty paying his child’s tuition took hostage a sacristan inside a church in Quezon City early Wednesday before he was subdued and arrested by police.
It was like watching an eight-hour-long telenovela although no one knew how it would end.
Communist rebels on Thursday freed the soldier and the policeman they took into custody in Laak, Compostela Valley, over a month ago, a military official said.
The drunk man who took hostage his former live-in partner and two children inside their home in Caloocan city surrendered peacefully after almost six hours of negotiation, police said Thursday.
A father took hostage his family at their home in Caloocan City Thursday morning, police said. Desk Supervisor Ronaldo Param said the still unidentified head of a family seized his wife and child inside their house on Phase 2 in Barangay (village) 176, Bagong Silang, Caloocan City around 9:30 a.m.
A taxi driver was robbed and killed by five men who posed as passengers on Sunday night in Quezon City.
A hostage drama in San Isidro village in Parañaque City ended with the death of the hostage-taker late Monday afternoon, radio reports said.
A woman took hostage her mother-in-law in Taguig City early Wednesday, police said. Police Officer 2 Peter Fiscal said the incident transpired at Block 1, Lot 3, Gate 2 in Barangay (village) Pinagsamahan in Taguig City and was reported to authorities around 9 a.m.
One of two Filipino TV journalists freed from eight months of captivity by the Abu Sayyaf said Monday the bandit group treated them “like sons” and that not once were they harmed.
Kidnappers have released the two Filipino crew members of Jordanian journalist Baker Atyani, just as reports surfaced that members of the Moro National Liberation Front have clashed with Abu Sayyaf in its bid to pressure the bandit group into releasing more of their captives.
Speaking into a ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried to talk a man into releasing a 5-year-old boy and ending a standoff at an underground bunker in rural Alabama that stretched into its third day.
