Paramedics help rescued victims (2nd R-top and centre) from the hijacked bus
Body of disgruntled ex-policeman Rolando Mendoza who held Hong Kong tourists hostage,hangs dead from door of bullet-ridden bus after a shoot out that ended the hostage ay Rizal Park after 12 hours.
A paramedic (top) lowers one of the wounded survivors from the hijacked bus, an ordeal which ended after 12 hours.
Philippine policemen try to open the door of a hijacked tourist bus.
Philippine policemen attempt to storm the bullet-ridden hijacked bus with Hong Kong tourists
Philippine police take a position behind a tree as they start their assault in a bid to free 15 hostages who remain on a hijacked tourist bus.
Philippine policemen break windows ahead of assault while other take up position
Philippine policemen take position as they start their attack on a hijacked tourist bus.
Bus driver (centre in white) taken away by police after he escaped from hijacker by jumping out of the window of a bus before police launched an assault
Three children and their mother (C), are escorted by negotiators (L and R) after their release from a bus taken over by ex-policeman armed with a high-powered assault rifle. Looking on from the tourist bus is another hostage tourist.
Unidentified man is released by the hostage-taker standing behind him. The former policeman hijacked a tourist bus with more than 20 Hong Kong tourists but later released seven people, including three children and their mother an elderly man and one Filip
Philippine policemen move in on bus with Hong Kong tourists held hostage by armed gunman after 12 hour stand-off
Unidentified hostage waves from behind the window of a hijacked the bus in Manila on August 23. An ex-policeman armed with a high-powered assault rifle hijacked a bus carrying more than 20 Hong Kong tourists including children in the Philippine capital
Ex-policeman identified as senior inspector Rolando Mendoza stands at bus entrance, speaking to negotiators at the front of the bus. The ex-policeman armed with a high-powered assault rifle hijacked a bus of Hong Kong tourists in historic section of the P
A negotiator delivers food to a tourist bus held by an armed ex-policeman,identified as Rolando Mendoza who was discharged in 2008 for his alleged involvement in drug-related crimes and extortion.
Susanna Lau (L), general manager of Hong Kong's Hong Thai Travel Services Ltd. meets the press in Hong Kong a former policeman from the Philippines seized a bus in Manila with more than 20 Hong Kong tourists who were customers from the travel agency.
An ex-policeman armed with a high-powered assault rifle (R) waves from a tourist bus in Manila carrying more than 20 Hong Kong tourists including children, looking on from the window is one of his hostages.
The driver (R) of the tourist bus where an armed ex-policeman took more than 20 Hong Kong tourists, including children, hostage. On the windshield are the demands of the hostage taker. Police said they were negotiating with the gunman.
Policemen walk toward the tourist bus with more than 20 Hong Kong adults and children held hostage by an ex-policeman armed with a high-powered assault rifle. Some hostages were released by the gunman about three hours after the standoff began.
A hostage peers from the window of a tourist bus during a standoff at Rizal Park where former Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, armed with automatic rifle, seized the bus mostly with foreign tourists,to demand reinstatement
A boy who's among the Hong Kong tourists taken hostage peers from the window of the tourist bus held by a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle
Hostages peer from the window at the back of the Hong Thai tourist bus after being taken over by former Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, armed with an automatic rifle
A police officer gestures to a hostage who among seven freed from tourist bus being held by an armed former policeman
Negotiators approach a tourist bus where former Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza has taken hostage foreign tourists at Manila's Rizal Park
Negotiators fill a hijacked tourist bus with fuel while two hostages look on from inside
Negotiators set up a communication line to the tourist bus hijacked by an ex-policeman armed with a high-powered assault rifle. Negotiations broke down after night-fall leading to a shoot-out
