At about 9:30 AM, March 28, as I am blogging this, 32 Day care students, two teachers on a fieldtrip to Tagaytay are being held hostage outside Manila City Hall by a certain Jun Ducat. Pictures on TV of the bus windows showed the kids to be 4 years old thereabout.
Senator Bong Revilla who aparently is well acquainted with the Hostage taker has entered the bus, talked with Jun for 45 minutes and has gone out of the bus.
I searched around and got this info about Jun ducat:
Aparently Armando J. Ducat Jr. run for Congress as an independent for the 3rd district of Manila last 2001 elections losing to Harry Angping.
Bong Revilla stated that the grenade held by Jun ducat already have no pin. However, in a previous hostage situation, Senator Lim mentioned that the grenades used by Ducat were fakes.
I got this site.... I wonder if this alibaba company is owned by Jun Ducat
at 12:50 Bong Revilla approached the Bus and called out to a kid who was released by the captors. He was not feeling well apparently, A stretcher brought him to an ambulance standing by.
News commentators at ANC commented that apparently, Jun Ducat has figured in previous hostage taking of 2 priest in the 80's and a hunger strike at eh Welcome Rotonda in the mid-90s. His hunger strike was against chinese running in Philippine elections.
He made a Losing bid for congress in 2001.
His Demands so far:
1. Demand to go on Air which he was allowed to. 2. Granting of a Land Title. 3. Candles and extra battery for his cell phone. 4. Free scholarship for 100+ students in a foundation he is involved in.
1:09 Ducat is now asking to talk to President Arroyo according to Sen. Bong Revilla. Actually, GMA assigned MetroManila governor Fernando to handle the hostage situation. 2 gallons of ice cream arrived for the kids.
at about 2:+ pM the bus attempted to move driven by Ducat. It was blocked by firetrucks. Instead he got an amplifier and started speaking to the crowds.
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your blog when you could be giving us something informative to read?