The bus on which the 25 people, of which 21 people were from China, were taken hostage by disgruntled former policeman Rolando Mendoza, who was fired from the police force for misconduct. Some of the eight tourist fatalities involved in a bus hijacking in the Philippines in  August may have inadvertently been shot by police during a raid on the vehicle, authorities investigating the incident have said. Philippine justice secretary Leila de Lima told Sky News that bullet trajectories and wounds received by the hostages indicate that some of the eight were killed by “friendly fire”. The incident occurred when a former Filipino policeman kept tourists from Hong Kong, China ,  hostage by hijacking their bus in Manila , the capital of the Philippines. Rolando Mendoza fired his M16 rifle at the tourists, before being gunned down and killed after an eleven-hour standoff with police. Although President Benigno Aquino III warned against people coming to conclusions regarding the operation before an investigation has been carried out, he also pledged that anyone found by the investigators to have failed in their duties would have criminal charges filed against them. Aquino says he makes himself personally responsible for the incident, which according to the Associated Free Press has "chilled ties with Hong Kong and damaged the Philippine tourism industry." He added that he intends to form an elite unit to engage in a similar incident, which would consist of 200 and 400 soldiers and police officers who are capable of responding to any threats or incidents that occur in the country.
The bus on which the 25 people, of which 21 people were from China, were by disgruntled former policeman Rolando Mendoza, who was fired from the police force for misconduct. Some of the eight tourist fatalities involved in a in the in August may have inadvertently been shot by police during a raid on the vehicle, authorities investigating the incident have said. Philippine justice secretary told that bullet trajectories and wounds received by the hostages indicate that some of the eight were killed by “friendly fire”. The incident occurred when a former Filipino policeman kept tourists from , , hostage by hijacking their bus in , the capital of the Philippines. Rolando Mendoza fired his M16 rifle at the tourists, before being gunned down and killed after an eleven-hour standoff with police. Although warned against people coming to conclusions regarding the operation before an investigation has been carried out, he also pledged that anyone found by the investigators to have failed in their duties would have criminal charges filed against them. Aquino says he makes himself personally responsible for the incident, which according to the has "chilled ties with Hong Kong and damaged the Philippine tourism industry." He added that he intends to form an elite unit to engage in a similar incident, which would consist of 200 and 400 soldiers and police officers who are capable of responding to any threats or incidents that occur in the country.
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