Source: Oriental Daily Translated by: aZnangel (Right: Alex To) (Raymond Lam) Alex To blasts at Philippiness Police inability to rescue HK tourists Yesterday a Hong Thai Travel Agency tour bus going to Manila, Philippines was hijacked by a former police officer, he held the tourists in hostage. Eight Hong Kong tourists were killed from the hijack, the incident shocked the entire city! Alex To and Jessica C. who are both of Philippine descent expressed their grief and felt the incident were terrifying. Alex To's father is a Hispanic-Filipino mix, he just returned to HK from Taiwan yesterday. Alex expressed that his whole family were at home watching the incident happen live on TV. He said: "I heard there were hostages that died, really hard to believe. I will pray for them. (There were some hostages rescued?) Lucky that there were survivors, the earlier reports said that all the hostages died, really terrifying. This kind of things cannot be said so randomly. The hostages' family members who see the report really can get frightened to death. If I were them, I would definitely have fainted." Speaking of the slow rescue by the Philippines police, Alex could not help but blast at them: "The police should have worked faster in the rescue. They were too slow in the operation, too afraid and no planning. How can they use a rope to pull the door down? It's a whole team of police officers against one person, it's a pity that those hostages were killed, there wasn't even a helicopter. They should have use two big lights blasting into the tour bus, how can they just throw a few glow sticks and go in like that? Useless! My father seeing the Philippines police being so inefficient is very disappointed!" Also, although Raymond Lam has to film TVB new series Colorful World of Sister Fa, he still paid attention to the incident. He reveals that he currently has relatives living in the Philippines and felt the incident was shocking: "When I have time I will call my relatives and ask about the current situation. (The local public security is bad there?) Well the public security there is not really bad, but the supervision of overseas firearms is pretty bad. The security there all have guns." As for some HK tourists were killed due to the incident, Raymond said: "I hope this isn't true!" ---- * Read the article on the hijack at Yahoo! News here.
Terrible terrible news...this incident is just wrong! Feel so sorry for these innocent ppl who were enjoying what meant to be a happy holiday abroad...
I have always like Alex to and his songs back in the golden days with the likes of salley yip, jacky cheung, aaron kwok, etc...... I like him even more now because of his response.
FKING ALEX.. He has no idea how things where, and he acts like the 3rd world country has the same training. SHAME ON HIM! This was a very tragic event, yet he has the nerves to blast the force in the attempt to save them. I don't see him, nor anyone else doing something, so they should shut up. If he felt that bad, he should start a funding for the victims. NEVER TRAVEL to such countries already. it's not worth it.
Very tragic incident but I'm more disappointed in the poor tactics and training of an "elite" SWAT group. Were they trying to scare the suspect by breaking the windows and throwing glow sticks inside in hopes that he'll have an epileptic seizure? We could go on and on about it but in the end, this could have been went better if these guys didn't sleep, get high on E and play with glow sticks during training.
dude. Did u see the way the filipinos forces sprayed their weapons even with the hostages on board? It's really not that surprising that among the dead, r due to the filipinos random shooting. And beside, there's a reason y the filipinos doesnt allow any foreigners to examine the bodies of the dead other than themselves. Y r u blaming Alex for blasting at those "so-called swats"? These idiots r very unprofessional. I'm no swat, but who doesnt kno the rules of saving hostages. The only time when you shoot at hostages along with the suspects is during war, when things goes intense like victims and enemies wearing vests full of explosives and charging at u. But this had one suspect and a trillion filipinos forces and not only that, they had many chances to take the fucker down. SO stop hating (tat's wat u've known for and who doesnt kno that?)....Contributing to the victims, oh yea, i guaran-damn-teed Alex will donate... i put my life on the line. Anyways, again, my condolences to the victims.
