Manila hostage taker dead, some hostages alive - TV

MANILA | Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:59am EDT

MANILA Aug 23 (Reuters) - Philippine police stormed a tourist bus on which an armed man held 15 hostages, and local media reported the hostage-taker, a sacked police officer, had been killed.

Police were shown by local media jumping into the bus after a tense and lengthy stakeout. The Red Cross said four hostages had survived and TV images showed police removing some bodies from the bus.

For more on the hostage story, see [nSGE67M05L] (Reporting by Rosemarie Francisco; Editing by John Mair and Miral Fahmy)

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