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| Southeast Asia |
| 4 dead in bus hijack |
| 2010-12-02 |
| [Straits Times] COMMUNIST rebels hijacked a bus in the Philippines on Wednesday, triggering a high-speed chase and a gunbattle in which four people were killed, police said. The attack came on the same day that rebel and government negotiators met in Hong Kong in a bid to jumpstart peace talks that have been stalled since 2004. The New People's Army (NPA) rebels boarded the bus near San Francisco town, 200km south of Manila, and directed the driver to an area under their control, provincial police chief Superintendent Erickson Velasquez said. Police and military personnel who were alerted to the hijack gave chase and the speeding bus was eventually stopped at an army checkpoint in a remote coastal area, Velasquez said in a statement. The rebels fought back, triggering a gunbattle that left four people dead and two others maimed, according to Supt Velasquez. No details were immediately available as to the identity of those killed and maimed. |
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