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UPDATE: Children released unharmed
-- MANILA -- A man who took a busload of children and teachers hostage from his day care center in Manila Wednesday freed them after a 10-hour standoff that he used to denounce corruption and demand better lives for poor children.Now take away all his grenades and lock this crazy fucker up.
Ducat and an unidentified second gunman taped a handwritten sheet of paper to the windshield, saying they were holding 32 children and two teachers and were armed with two grenades, an Uzi assault rifle and a .45 caliber pistol.
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-- MANILA -- Gunmen hijacked a busload of day-care students and teachers and drove them to Manila's city hall Wednesday to demand better housing and education for the children.What is it about hot, third world countries that makes so many people so crazy?
The hostage-takers scribbled in large letters on a sheet of paper, taped to the windshield of the bus, that they were holding 32 children and two teachers and were armed with two grenades, an assault rifle and a pistol, officer Mark Andal said.
They said they were demanding improved housing and education for 145 children in a day-care centre in Manila's poor Tondo district where the incident appeared to have begun.
“I love these kids; that's why I am here,” one of the hostage-takers, identifying himself as Jun Ducat, told DZMM radio by cellphone.
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