1、A police sniper killed the hijacker, Rolando Mendoza, but not before the eight were killed.
2、Tourists were hostages of a policeman here, Rolando Mendoza. After a few hours of the horrible crime, some of the victims were dead including the hostage-taker.
3、Rolando Mendoza, who was said to have been killed by a police sniper toward the end of the incident seen live on television worldwide.
4、Television reports showed that that Rolando Mendoza, the cold-blooded hostage-taker, was laid in his house in a coffin draped in the Philippine national flag.
5、After the hostage-taker - an embittered former police officer, Rolando Mendoza - started shooting, the security forces struggled for more than an hour to board the vehicle and save the passengers.
6、The gunman had been identified as Rolando Mendoza, a former senior police inspector who was sacked in 2008 over allegations of robbery, extortion and drug-related crimes, he added.
