Manila shopping mall on lockdown as sacked security guard shoots one and takes dozens hostage

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A disgruntled ex-security guard has taken dozens of shoppers hostage at a mall in the Philippines during a standoff with police.

The sacked employee of the V-Mall in Manila's San Juan City opened fire in the capital's upmarket district on Monday.

The gunman shot one man, said to be a mall officer, as he tried to enter the administration office.

He then took more than 30 people captive inside the retail centre as he warned he had a grenade, according to the city's mayor Francis Zamora.

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