About 34 innocent people have been found dead in the bathroom after a gunman attacked Resorts World Manila in Philippine.
Policemen and a security guard escorting a hotel worker is seen at the entrance of a
hotel in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines June 2, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
Manila law enforcement officials uncovered 34 bodies inside the
Resorts World Manila in the Philippines after an attack by a lone gunman
in the casino, an official said early Friday.
The victims appeared to have been suffocated and were not shot,
said Superintendent Tomas Apolinario, Bureau of Fire Protection,
Southern Police District in an interview that aired on local media.
“Most of the victims were women who were found dead inside the bathroom,” Apolinario said.
Around midnight Thursday, the masked and armed gunman forced his
way into the second-floor casino and starting shooting at gambling
machines and setting tables on fire, according to witnesses and police.
People were stampeded as they sought shelter.
About 7 a.m., police said they found the gunman dead in one of the
hotel guestrooms. He had set himself on fire, and was found next to a
machine gun and a .380 caliber pistol.
“The lone gunman committed suicide by setting himself on fire in one of the rooms on the fifth floor of the Resort World Hotel,” the National Capitol Region Police Chief Oscar Albayalde told reporters.
In a statement posted to its Facebook page Friday, the resort said it had “extended medical assistance to the 54 individuals who were taken to nearby hospitals.”
Philippine National Police chief General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa
downplayed news reports that the Islamic State terror group was behind
the attack, saying the early evidence doesn’t yet point in that
direction.
“Don’t panic, this is not a cause for alarm,” he said.
“We cannot attribute this to terrorism. We are looking into a robbery
angle because he did not hurt any people and went straight to the casino
chips storage room.
“He parked at the second floor and barged into the casino,
shooting large TV screens and poured gasoline on a table, setting it on
fire.”
The suspect, described as Caucasian, ransacked a room and stole
gaming chips, Dela Rosa said. Chips totaling $2.3 million were found in a
backpack recovered by police, he added.
Resorts World Manila said the shooting triggered a lockdown, and
that it was working with police in the case. All terminals at nearby
Ninoy Aquino International Airport were also locked down because of the
attack.
The complex, which opened in 2009, is described on RWM’s website as “the first and largest integrated resort in the Philippines.”
It occupies part of a former military camp, and includes four hotels,
casino gambling areas, a shopping mall, cinemas, restaurants, clubs and a
theater. The hotels have a total of 1,574 rooms.
A police officer at the Pasay City Tactical Operations Center said
SWAT teams responded to the shooting, according to The New York Times.
The New York Times cited local media reports that there were
explosions around the hotel, which is near Manila’s international
airport. Witnesses also said initially that they saw two armed suspects
dressed in black.
“I could smell some kind of smoke that came from an explosive device,” said Tikos Low, who said he was in the resort’s casino, to CNN.
Authorities were not able to confirm the origin of the attack, but
the Philippines military has been recently fighting groups associated
with the Islamic State elsewhere in the island nation.
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