Botched coup bid in Philippines ends

(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-11-30 13:54


Senator Antonio Trillanes (R) walks from a court to a luxury hotel in Makati City, Manila November 29, 2007. Philippine military and police teams stormed a luxury hotel in Manila on Thursday to end a short-lived coup attempt by a small group of soldiers and others who had called on the army to mutiny. Government forces fired teargas into the lobby of the Manila Peninsula Hotel and used an armoured personnel carrier (APC) to batter down its glass doors before storming in under cover of repeated bursts of fire in the air. [Agencies]

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