Armed with an assault rifle and a pistol, sacked policeman Rolando Mendoza took a busload of tourists hostage on August 23 in a desperate bid to clear himself of extortion charges and get his old job back.
Eight of the tourists were killed and seven others were injured in the central Manila standoff. Police initially insisted the bullets that killed the tourists were all fired from Mendoza's guns.
Philippine investigators has now admitted for the first time on Thursday that police may have shot some of the tourists in a bungled operation that left eight Hong Kong residents dead on a bus in Manila. MORE
Reporter Erwin Tulfo, who was in telephone contact with sacked policeman Rolando Mendoza shortly before he shot his hostages, acknowledged the behaviour of the journalists who covered the crisis raised ethical questions.
He was hogging a telephone line being used by police negotiators for "almost one hour"... which may have tipped off the hostage-taker about the movements of the police.
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