Man holds hostage mom, 3 kids in Pasig City

MANILA, Philippines—An armed man took hostage his 66-year-old mother, three children and their helpers inside the family-owned school in Pasig City on Friday afternoon.

Emerson Go, held hostage his mother, Mildred, his two nephews aged eight and five years old, a four-year-old niece, and two of their housemaids inside the family-owned St. Gabriel International School along Sandoval Avenue in Barangay Palatiw, Pasig City, said Senior Inspector Rodrigo de Dios, head of the investigation section of the Pasig Police.

De Dios said that Go, 31, was armed with two handguns when the incident was first reported to the police at around 2:40 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

Go had freed the three minor hostages, and one of the two housemaids.

De Dios said that Go’s initial demand was that his wife and three children, who live in New Manila, Quezon City and have yet to be identified by the police, be brought to him in Pasig.

The hostage crisis was still ongoing as of 6:40 p.m., four hours after it was first reported to the police, with Mildred and one of the housemaids still being held hostage.