Students held hostage on bus by gunmen

Gunmen were today holding a busload of day-care students and teachers hostage in the Philippines, demanding better housing and education for the children.

Hostage-takers scribbled on a sheet of paper, taped to the bus windshield, that they were holding 32 children and two teachers and were armed with two grenades, an Uzi assault rifle police and a .45-calibre pistol, officer Mark Andal said.