七月十四死亡旅行團: 香港康泰旅行社旅遊巴在菲律賓被挾持事件

2010年8月23日（農曆七月十四日盂蘭節，俗稱「鬼節」），
香港康泰旅行社旅遊巴在菲律賓馬尼拉持事件失敗收場，
無能菲律賓警察令港人8死7傷，

香港人悲痛與憤怒的一天！！！ 

• 維基百科︰香港旅遊巴在菲律賓被挾持事件
• 香港網絡大典︰香港旅遊巴在菲律賓被挾持事件
• 明報新聞網新聞特輯

菲律賓警白痴行為令人憤怒
STUPID ACTION of Philippine Police made 8 Hong Kong hostages died.
Hong Kong people are very angry now!!!

馬尼拉大屠殺
革職警M16血洗旅巴　康泰港團八死七傷
2010年08月24日(二) 東方日報

二○一○年八月廿三日將永遠成為港人的黑色回憶。菲律賓首都馬尼拉昨發生有史以來最慘烈的槍手血洗香港旅行團事故，康泰旅行社一個有廿名本港團友的馬尼拉四天旅行團，昨晨九時許遊覽馬尼拉市中心的「國父黎剎紀念公園」後，突遭一名不滿被革職的警官持M-16衝鋒步槍挾持在旅遊巴士內，槍手與警方對峙近十句鐘後在車內爆發槍戰，流血收場。雖然槍手最終飲彈身亡，但最少八名團友無辜陪葬，包括一名英勇救人而犧牲的男子及三名傳被狙擊手誤殺的團友，另外七人受傷，包括一人重傷危殆。至於幸存的生還者，則要飽嘗家人親友死亡的傷痛。

肇事的旅行團編號為PMK04-100820，共有二十名團友，包括十二女八男，以及一名香港男領隊，年齡由四歲至七十二歲，事發時全團人與菲律賓司機及導遊全部被槍手挾持在旅遊巴內做人質，其後有九人包括老弱婦孺在內先後獲釋，車上尚餘十四名團友，年齡介乎十四至六十七歲，包括九女五男，另有香港姓謝領隊。馬尼拉警方大為緊張，馬上封鎖現場及派出三十多名特種部隊包括狙擊手包圍戒備。

無視人質 車廂連環駁火

雙方對峙九小時後，晚上七時三十五分左右終傳出第一下槍聲。當時槍手欲駛走旅遊巴，警方即時開槍射穿車胎。槍手被槍聲刺激後在車內開槍，警方狙擊手無視車上仍有人質，隨即瞄準車尾位置開火還擊，傳來最少六下槍聲。原被挾持的菲律賓司機趁機跑出車廂，聲稱見到槍手向人質開槍，又指人質已全部被殺，令現場氣氛非常緊張。

由於未能確定人質的情況，警方特種部隊不敢輕舉妄動，待槍聲過後才手持大錘及斧頭敲碎車廂及車門玻璃，到晚上八時十八分左右成功由車門登上旅遊巴查看情況，現場突然再次爆發槍戰，槍手向車外瘋狂連環開槍，已登上旅遊巴的警員狼狽離開。香港無綫電視新聞部工程人員溫明及一名圍觀的十歲小孩被流彈所傷，其中溫被流彈擦傷肚皮，並無大礙。

車內放催淚彈 擊斃槍手

警方在二十分鐘後再次突襲，在車內施放催淚煙霧並開槍，狙擊手終成功擊斃槍手。救護員及記者隨即一湧而上，五分鐘後三名受傷較輕的人質陸續自行從旅遊巴逃生門離開。不過其後多名受傷團友需由擔架抬離現場，分別被送至崇仰總醫院（Manila Doctors Hospital）、菲律賓國立總醫院（Philippine General Hospital）及Hospital of Manila等多間醫院搶救。

中國駐馬尼拉大使館證實，最少八名人質被殺，七人受傷，包括最少一人重傷。崇仰總醫院一名醫生表示，三女兩男團友送到該院，其中四人抵院時證實死亡，餘下一人仍在搶救中。他形容死者是頭部中槍或受刀傷致命，至於重傷者仍有子彈留在大腦，需動手術取出，生存機會渺茫。

槍手與警方對峙期間一直無傷害人質，當局更一度稱對能夠不流血解決事件感非常樂觀。但入夜後形勢急轉直下，由於當局拒絕槍手要求，槍手情緒大受打擊。警方談判專家傍晚時分與槍手再次談判時，槍手突情緒激動，又用手銬將本港領隊扣在車門旁。槍手透過電台稱，知道警方已派出大量狙擊手包圍旅遊巴，自知隨時被殺，聲言會與人質同歸於盡，事件最終流血收場。

菲律賓社會福利局主管Corazon Dinky Sokiman昨深夜召開記者會，指今次事件共造成八名港人死亡，其中兩人未能尋獲護照，身份有待核實，其中送往崇仰總醫院（Manila Doctors Hospital）的四名死者，其中兩人頸部中槍，另兩人背部中槍；至於尚有一名二十歲青年，一度情況危殆，醫院晚上為他進行腦部手術，拿走碎片，情況轉趨穩定。
部分死傷者送院救治後情況

崇仰總醫院（Manila Doctors Hospital）
30歲男子（死亡）
50歲女子（死亡）
30歲男子（死亡）
20歲女子（死亡）
20歲男子（一度危殆，晚上進行腦部手術，轉趨穩定）
67歲女子（輕傷）
46歲男子（輕傷）

菲律賓國立總醫院（Philippine General Hospital）
1人死亡
4人受傷

聖胡安．德．迪歐斯醫院（San Juan De Dios Hospital）
1人死亡

OSMA醫院
2人死亡

菲國特警試圖配合催淚彈從旅巴尾部營救人質，期間遇到連串開槍還擊。 （美聯社圖片）

 

槍手在昨早曾經站在旅巴車門與外間聯絡溝通。

一名流露痛楚的傷者在挾持事件結束後被送上救護車。 （美聯社圖片）

特派採訪隊 陳兆豪 陳德賢 鄺淑儀 張學儀 林靄雲 伍鎮業 馬尼拉直擊報道


馬尼拉康泰團遇槍手挾持及殺戮經過
2010年08月24日(二) 東方日報

早上10時許 一行23人的康泰馬尼拉四天團，最後一天參觀當地國父黎剎紀念公園，團友上車離開前，前警官Rolando Mendoza突然跟隨上車，當地導遊喝止不果，Rolando隨即亮槍、鎖車門及用手銬鎖起司機。

早上10時半 隨團港領隊趁機在車尾致電回港，報告被挾持消息。


早上10時50分 其中一名團友66歲的婆婆因肚痛需前往洗手間，由當地導遊陪同離車先行釋放，但須換上2名當地攝影人員作人質交換。

中午12時半 槍手再釋放車上3名小朋友，連同其中兩名小朋友的母親，年紀最小為4歲，最大12歲，槍手未有要求人質交換。

下午1時15分 在槍手同意下現場工作人員送飯盒到車廂內。

下午1時28分 槍手再釋放多一名70多歲患糖尿病男子，屬早前獲釋的婆婆之丈夫，另亦釋放多2名菲律賓人，槍手未要求人質交換。

下午2時許 槍手在旅遊巴門口玻璃貼上「3時後有大事發生」的字條。

下午3時 旅遊巴內外一切平靜，僅有現場工作人員為旅遊巴入油。期間槍手弟弟與槍手接觸，要求槍手延遲期限。

下午3時半 槍手再貼上「Media Now」（要求即時見傳媒）的字條。

下午近4時 槍手妻子到達現場，希望與丈夫對話。

晚上約7時 現場突然傳來六聲槍聲，車尾突現兩個子彈孔。


晚上7時15分 疑似旅遊巴司機突然由車內衝出來，手持一張字條，快速走至封鎖線邊，後被警員帶走上警車。

晚上7時36分 當地電視台報道指全車人質被殺，但消息未經證實。

晚上7時38分 警方全副裝備到場準備破門。

晚上8時20分 槍手未死，一度還擊開槍，一名電視台工程人員及一名小童中槍。

晚上8時45分 警方闖進旅巴，先後扶着四名生還的人質落車，其中一名中年女子顯得情緒激動。此外，警方又抬走多名傷者落車，全部送往醫院，此時，亦傳出槍手中槍死亡。

晚上9時 香港政府宣布派出包機接載死傷者家屬前往馬尼拉，而保安局副局長黎棟國亦會帶領警方、入境處、社署及醫護人員前往支援。

晚上9時46分 香港政府向菲律賓發出黑色旅遊警示，康泰等旅行社隨即宣布取消前往當地的旅行團。

晚上10時35分 中國駐馬尼拉大使館表示，事件共造成八死、一重傷及六輕傷。


菲警低能營救遲緩慌亂
2010年08月24日(二) 東方日報

康泰旅行團遭槍手挾持殺戮事件，自晚上七時半起事態發展急轉直下，車上突然傳出六響槍聲、旅遊巴司機逃出旅巴時聲言人質全數被殺，令現場氣氛頓變緊張，但菲律賓特警卻仍未能第一時間攻入旅巴救人質，不但沒有使用爆破器材或任何先進儀器，只是採用令人難以置信的原始工具，先以大鐵錘試圖敲破車窗，又拋入螢光棒協助了解車內情況，出動小卡車輔以繩索企圖扯開車門卻以繩索斷掉告終，見者無不倍感心急如焚，最終耗費一小時才可攻入旅巴，可惜一切已是太遲。

菲律賓軍警在傳出槍聲後七分鐘才採取行動，約廿名特警由手持防彈盾牌的人員開路下逐步逼近旅遊巴，但未見「快、狠、準」出手攻入車廂，反而只出動大鐵錘逐一敲打車窗、車門及車頭的玻璃，數分鐘後平靜多時的車廂內再傳出槍聲，特警們立即暫停捶打工作，緊貼車身持槍戒備，更全員移到相信人質聚集的車尾，改為集中錘打車尾位置，但錘打了二十多下卻仍未見成效，令人焦急。

鐵錘跌入車廂 亂掟螢光棒

特警隨後將目標轉移到車頭及車門位置，但同樣用大鐵錘敲打多時仍徒勞無功，連鐵錘亦一度跌入車內，要警員匆匆取回，期間有警員將一支相信是螢光棒的物體從車窗的破洞拋入，目標未明，延至晚上八時車上再次傳來連串槍聲，包圍旅遊巴的特警決定再次按兵不動，繼續緊貼車身戒備。

警方數分鐘後派出小卡車駛近旅遊巴車尾，同時警員用繩索綑綁車門中間位置，再將小卡車駛近車頭，將繩索綁緊小卡車，試圖利用行車的拉力扯開車門，正當全場以為終有突破性進展時，卻戲劇性地以繩索被扯斷告終，白白浪費了寶貴的救人時間。

直至晚上八時十五分，即車上首次傳出槍聲後的四十五分鐘，特警終於成功打開車尾的逃生門，一度無用武之地的小卡車倒車固定逃生門，數名警員陸續登入車廂，救援車輛亦駛近旅遊巴戒備。緊接短短十分鐘卻特別漫長，車上不時傳出連串槍聲，更有濃煙冒出，半小時後才確認槍手被殺，特警終於可救出人質，可惜為時已晚，車上港人傷亡慘重。

網民轟行動太慢刺激槍手

本港多個討論區均有大批巿民責難菲律賓特警極度落後的救人方法，認為是事件以多名人質被殺告終的主因。有網民質疑特警行動太慢，令槍手有充足時間屠殺，網民「澳馬士」更指看到「菲律賓警察好似老鼠拉龜，真係火都嚟！」有網民則質疑「錘窗」做法反刺激槍手殺人，要求菲律賓解釋行動部署，又認為若槍手釋放人質時菲警出動狙擊手或衝入車廂，或可避免今次人質傷亡慘重。

一名特警用鐵錘打爛車窗。 （美聯社圖片）

警方憑藉一輛警車爬入旅遊巴。 （美聯社圖片）

大批特警包圍旅遊巴。（特派記者馬尼拉傳真）

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Eight Hong Kong tourists killed in Philippine bus hijacking
Mon Aug 23, 6:36 pm ET (AFP)
by Mynardo Macaraig Mynardo Macarai

MANILA (AFP) – Philippine security forces stormed a bus packed with Hong Kong tourists to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving eight people and the gunman dead.

The day-long ordeal on Monday began when a disgruntled ex-policeman armed with an M-16 assault rifle and dressed in combat pants hijacked the bus in Manila's tourist district in a desperate bid to get his job back.

Negotiations broke down after nightfall when the gunman, former senior police inspector Rolando Mendoza, began shooting and commandos were forced to storm the bus, firing dozens of bullets of their own into the vehicle.

"I shot two Chinese. I will finish them all if they do not stop," Mendoza told a local radio station as the police assault was about to get under way.

Police said a sniper shot Mendoza dead after he used his captives as "human shields" in the final moments of the 12-hour standoff.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said eight tourists were confirmed killed, while the Red Cross reported another seven were in hospital with unspecified injuries.

Nine hostages, including children, were freed at various times throughout the day from the bus that was parked at Rizal Park, a popular tourist destination just a few blocks from police headquarters.

The Filipino bus driver jumped out of a window and escaped moments before police stormed the vehicle, with his escape and the rest of the crisis broadcast live on television.

One of the survivors hit out at the Philippine authorities, saying they acted too slowly.

"There were so many people on the bus -- no one came to our rescue. Why?" the woman, who identified herself as Mrs Leung, said at the scene in comments broadcast on Hong Kong's Cable TV.

"We were in fear for so many hours. I find it really cruel."

Aquino defended the actions of the police, saying authorities had initially believed Mendoza would surrender, suggested by the release of some of the hostages, but the situation later deteriorated.

After waiting more than 10 hours to launch their assault, police were then unable to get inside the bus for another 90 minutes.

They encircled the bus, smashed its windows and fired at it, but Mendoza held them off by shooting back.

The crisis eventually ended when police threw tear gas inside the bus, and fired again.

"He used the tourists as human shields. But he panicked and retreated to the front of the bus. He was then met with a volley of gunfire," the assault team's leader Superintendent Nelson Yabut told reporters.

A former commander of France's elite hostage rescue unit criticised the police assault as "badly prepared and risky".

The officers who stormed the bus did not have specialist training and "visibly lacked adequate equipment and tactical competence," said Frederic Gallois, the former head of France's National Gendarmerie Intervention Group.

Mendoza, 55, was honoured by police chiefs in 1986 as one of the top 10 officers in the country.

But he was discharged in 2008 for his alleged involvement in drug-related crimes and extortion and hijacked the bus in a bid to clear his name, according to police.

"He wants to be reinstated in the service," Manila district police chief Superintendent Rodolfo Magtibay said early in the day.

Joseph Tung, executive director of the Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong, said the tourists, aged between four and 72, were on a three-day tour with Hong Thai Travel due to end on Monday.

The Hong Kong government warned all its citizens to avoid travelling to the Philippines, and expressed grief over the killings.

"It is a tragedy because a pleasure trip has ended up with casualties and injuries," Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang told a press briefing.

Flags on Hong Kong government buildings will fly at half mast on Tuesday as a mark of respect for the victims.

The Chinese foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, telephoned his Philippine counterpart Alberto Romulo to express Beijing's shock and demand a thorough investigation, China's official Xinhua news agency said.

China is to send a team to the Philippines to help deal with the aftermath, Xinhua said.

The killings added to a fast-growing number of attacks of foreigners in the Philippines.

Gunmen shot dead a South Korean man in a separate attack on Monday in another part of Manila. Police said the incidents were not related.

Philippines mourns, HK angry after hijack deaths
2010.8.24 (AP)
By OLIVER TEVES, Associated Press Writer Oliver Teves, Associated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines acknowledged "inadequacies" in handling a hostage crisis that killed eight Hong Kong tourists, as anger over the botched negotiations erupted Tuesday in Hong Kong with demonstrations and harsh words.

A heartbreaking picture emerged of the victims — a mother of three who lost her husband and two daughters, a teenager oblivious of her parents' death and a tour guide who aspired to become a yoga teacher.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, facing his first major crisis since taking office on June 30, declared Wednesday a national day of mourning in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong to "share their sorrow," his spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.

Officials promised a full investigation into how the hijacker — a former policeman demanding his job back — was able to gun down eight of the 15 Hong Kong hostages on board the bus before a sniper killed him and officers were finally able to get into the vehicle. Seven other hostages survived the final bloodbath, which came after a 12-hour standoff at a seaside Manila park.

Philippine Interior Secretary Jessie Robredo, who is in charge of the national police, acknowledged Tuesday there were problems with how the crisis was handled.

"Had we been better prepared, better equipped, better trained, maybe the response would have been quicker despite the difficulty," Robredo said.

He added, "All the inadequacies happened at the same time."

Philippine police had defended their actions — pointing out that officers lacking proper equipment had risked their lives in trying to bring the standoff to an end. But they promised to review all events leading to the deaths.

In Hong Kong, sorrow quickly evolved into outrage, with several of the semiautonomous Chinese territory's political parties leading protesters to the Philippine Consulate.

Demonstrators chanted, "You caused the deaths of Hong Kongers," and one protester scuffled with a security guard.

"We think the Philippine government used the wrong strategy. We think the operation failed," pro-Beijing legislator Lau Kong-wah told reporters.

Several Hong Kong newspapers printed mastheads in black, and flags in the territory flew at half-staff.

"Filipino police incompetent," Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News said in a front-page headline.

The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Committee added its voice to demands for an explanation, but also was "deeply concerned by people who are trying to blow this incident out of proportion" and who might vent anger through retaliatory attacks against thousands of Filipinos who work there, mostly as maids.

"This tragedy should not become a conflict of nationalities," it said in a statement.

Aquino on Tuesday met Chinese ambassador Liu Jianchao and phoned Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang to brief them on the investigation into the crisis that started when a dismissed police officer armed with a M16 rifle and a pistol seized a busload of 21 Hong Kong tourists and four Filipinos to demand his reinstatement on the force.

The ordeal ended in bloodshed on live TV with police storming the bus and killing the gunman, 55-year-old Rolando Mendoza, after he fired at the tourists.

Of the 25 people originally on the bus, 13 of the Hong Kong tourists and four Filipinos survived. Nine of the survivors had been freed by Mendoza hours before the gunfire began.

Britain's Foreign Office said Tuesday that two of the hostages who were released were British nationals.

At the scene of the standoff, family of two dead hostages attended a Buddhist memorial ceremony Tuesday.

The tearful relatives trailed monks who walked around bus, sprinkling water around the bullet-pocked vehicle. Survivor Amy Ng mourned the deaths of her husband Ken Leung, whom she said confronted the gunman, and daughters Doris and Jessie, aged 21 and 14. Her son, Jason, was still hospitalized after an operation on a head wound.

"I thought I would fight for survival so I could take care of my children, but two of them have already died," a sobbing Ng said Tuesday.

A bedridden, catatonic Tracey Wong told Hong Kong reporters she hid under a seat in the bus while Mendoza fired at the hostages.

"I want to find daddy and mommy quickly and see if they're OK," the 15-year-old said. But Hong Kong's radio RTHK reported that both her parents were among those killed, identifying her father as 51-year-old Wong Tze-lam.

Tour operator Hong Thai Travel Services general manager Susanna Lau praised a slain tour guide, 31-year-old Masa Tse, for his vigilance and decade-long service. TV footage showed him peeking out of the bus during his captivity and later one hand handcuffed to a position near the bus door.

Tse had studied yoga in India and wanted to become an instructor, Hong Kong's Cable TV reported, citing his friends. His Facebook page was flooded with messages of condolences. "I know you did your best to protect members of your tour group. You were very brave. Rest in peace. I will always miss you," friend Tulip Lam wrote.

Hong Kong has canceled tours to the Philippines and asked Hong Kong tourists still in the country to leave.

Philippine Tourism Secretary Alberto Lim said the crisis would likely damage the industry. About 140,000 Hong Kong tourists come annually.

"I'm hoping it will be forgotten soon enough," he said in a Manila hospital, where some of the former hostages were treated.

"We will try to improve ourselves and assure the Hong Kong government and the rest of the world that we will be able to handle matters much better in the future," he said.

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Associated Press writers Jim Gomez, Teresa Cerojano and Hrvoje Hranjski in Manila, Min Lee in Hong Kong and David Stringer in London contributed to this report.