On August 23 , 2010 , a twelve-hour-long hostage incident on one of the company 's buses in Manila , Philippines , occurred . Twenty-five people , part of a tour group from Hong Kong , were taken hostage on a bus by the gunman , Rolando Mendoza , a former police officer . Eight of them were killed , seven injured while six left the scene unharmed . Mendoza was killed by the police with a bullet to his head in the end
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