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| Subject: Today on Ancaps Super Forum: Even Better - Fifth Philippine pig suspended over bus debacle Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:54 pm | |
| A fifth senior policeman in the Philippines was suspended on Friday amid further revelations of bungling in the chaotic end to a hostage stand-off that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead.
The Philippine government and police have been under intense pressure all week after admitting to mistakes in the handling of Monday's hijacking of a bus in Manila by a frustrated sacked policeman hoping to get his job back.
Eight of the tourists on board the bus were killed in the final stages of the 12-hour siege, in which an ill-prepared special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team tried to storm the bus but failed to get in for about an hour.
Manila's police chief Leocadio Santiago said on Friday a senior officer who joined the SWAT assault without permission had been suspended.
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