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SCMP Reporter

10.30am  HK tour guide calls  Hong Kong office of Hong Thai Travel saying his  bus has been  hijacked
11am A Filipino tour guide and an elderly woman are released. Two Filipino photographers  go on board in  exchange 
12.05pm Three children and a woman are set free 
1.05pm Lunch boxes are delivered to the hijacked bus 
1.20pm The gunman, wearing a  short-sleeved blue uniform and carrying an assault rifle, appears and  nears the door of the bus 
1.25pm An elderly man  is freed 
2pm Three notices  suggesting something will happen  at 3pm are stuck on the door and a window  
2.40pm A photographer is freed 
3pm The gunman briefly draws open a window curtain to look out 
3.12pm A police car brings fuel.  A man puts fuel into the bus 
3.28pm A 'MEDIA NOW' notice appears on a window  
3.30pm An  earlier notice,  'BIG DEAL WILL START AFTER 3 PM TODAY',  is removed 
4.35pm Second  Filipino photographer allowed off  bus 
5.30pm The bus is driven forward for a short distance and then stops 
7.20pm Shots  inside the bus 
7.30pm Bus driver flees vehicle 
7.40pm Police SWAT team try to break into the bus 
8.15pm Police break into back of bus but quickly withdraw 
8.20pm  Shots fired from bus 
8.40pm Police storm bus, open back door, four hostages crawl out
8.57pm Another hostage seen leaving bus
9.10pm Police confirm three fatalities, one of them the gunman
11pm Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen confirms seven Hong Kong residents killed
12.45am Philippine President Benigno Aquino says eighth Hong Kong person dead



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