Botched coup bid in Philippines ends
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-11-30 13:54

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Hotel guests leave the Peninsula Hotel after coup plotters took over the building in Makati City, Manila November 29, 2007. The latest coup bid in the Philippines ended on Thursday in a military assault on a luxury hotel and a fusillade of shots but no casualties. Elite military and police units stormed the Manila Peninsula Hotel, a plush icon in the sprawling city of 12 million people, and arrested rebel soldiers, a senator and a handful of priests who had taken over the building and called on the army to mutiny. [Agencies]
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