Photo taken by a cellphone shows the gunman talking to the media via a video call during the hostage-taking and shooting incident in San Juan City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on March 2, 2020. A gunman took around 30 hostages at a shopping mall in the San Juan City of Metro Manila and one person was shot, a government official said on Monday. (Xinhua/Yang Ke)
MANILA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine police ended a 10-hour hostage incident in Metro Manila on Monday, convincing the gunman to free all the hostages and surrender himself to the authorities.
The hostage-taker identified as Archie Paray, an ex-security guard of the V-Mall in the San Juan City of Metro Manila, exited the building and surrendered to the policemen at around 8:18 p.m. local time (1218 GMT).
The gunman released all hostages before he left the mall and agreed to leave his pistol and grenades in the shopping mall.
Paray entered the mall at around 10:00 a.m. local time (0200 GMT), shot a mall guard and took around 30 people as hostages.
