MANILA: A group of hostages at a shopping mall on Monday (March 2) in the Philippines have been freed unharmed - and their captor has surrendered to authorities - according to video released by San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora.
Earlier it was reported that, a Philippine security guard, sacked from his job at a shopping mall in the capital, Manila, shot a man and took dozens of people hostage on Monday, as police and negotiators tried to end the standoff.
The gunman, Archie Paray, later gave assurances that the hostages would be released without harm, provided that the authorities did not try to trick him. Though major hostage incidents are rare in the Philippines, memories are fresh of when a sacked policeman hijacked a Manila bus full of Hong Kong tourists in 2010, and was killed in a gunfight together with eight passengers when police bungled a rescue.
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