WRAP 2 gunmen killed after attempt to seize control tower at airport

Описание: (8 Nov 2003)

7 November 2003
1. Wide shot of control tower and terminal building
2. Terminal building
3. Police car
4. Police outside
5. AUDIO of gunshots with long shot of terminal
6. Cameraman runs towards terminal, AUDIO of more gunfire
7. Cameraman running towards terminal
8. Various of police at airport perimeter stopping and searching cars
9. Armed police
10. Car being stopped
11. Long shot of control tower

8 November 2003
12. Wide shot of Ninoy Aquino International airport control tower
13. Armed security
14. Security talking on radio
15. Stretcher being brought in
16. Stretcher being pulled
17. Shot of special forces behind fence
18. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Edgardo Manda, general manager Ninoy Aquino International Airport:
"Our operations are now normal, we have no more problems. We are still checking if we have any body count."
19. Medical team with medical equipment
21. Close up of medical equipment
22. Panning shot of airport security
23. Wide shot of airport control tower then pan down as body is being brought out
24. Cutaway press
25. Body being brought to waiting van
26. Second body being lifted
27. Media scrambling to take pictures of video
28. Heavily armed security
29. Wide shot of airport control tower windows
30. Panning shot of broken glass at control tower windows
31. Wide shot of Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo arriving
32. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philippines President:
"The situation in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport has been resolved. Nothing will ever justify the taking over of the international airport control tower and prejudice the lives of air passengers. There can be absolutely no excuse to terrorise the public in this manner."
33. Wide shot of van with bodies
34. Panning shot of bodies inside van

APTN FILE (May 25, 1995)
35. Former Air Transport Chief Colonel Panfilo Villaruel talking

8 November 2003
36. People inside control tower
37. Pan of aircraft taking off to bullet hole in glass
38. Focus in on blood splattered on window

STORYLINE:

A former civil aviation official and an accomplice tried to seize a control tower at Manila's international airport before dawn on Saturday and were killed in a gunfight with airport security officers.

Former Air Transportation Office chief Panfilo Villaruel and another armed man, Ricardo Gatchaliar, entered the airport control tower office at Ninoy Aquino International Airport shortly before midnight.

Villaruel was motivated by a "personal grievance," said Ignacio Bunye, a spokesperson for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who praised the response by authorities.

Brandishing handguns, the two men ordered the controllers out. The pair turned off the lights and cut telephone lines in the tower.

Security officers tried to persuade the two to surrender but they refused. The two men were killed in the subsequent gunbattle.

Gunfire was heard in a DZBB radio report. "They are killing us.... we surrender," Villaruel told DZBB. Radio listeners then heard him gasping for breath.

Villaruel earlier said other people had joined him in taking over the 11-storey tower, but it was unclear if any others were involved. No other casualties were reported from the standoff.

Villaruel had expressed despair over alleged government corruption and what he described as the country's aimless drift.


Coming just three months after a failed coup, Arroyo tried to allay fears the incident was part of another grab for power, saying there were "no unauthorized movement of troops" anywhere in the country.








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