Breaking: At Least 36 Killed After Bloody Shooting in Philippines Casino

At least 36 people have been killed after a gunman stormed a casino in Manila, Philippines firing shots and setting gaming tables alight before burning himself to death.


Most of the victims are believed to have suffocated on smoke from the fires as panicked guests and gamblers clambered over each other to flee the scene of what police have described as a botched robbery attempt.

Chilling photos from the scene show victims lying down while others were seen being carried out of the building.

Reuters reports that the suspect, a white “English speaker”, raced into the Resorts World Manila complex shortly after midnight and fired an assault rifle at betting machines and TV screens, before pulling out a can of gasoline, pouring it over gaming tables and setting them ablaze.

About 50 have been rushed to hospitals. Image: Sun
He then stuffed his rucksack with 311m Philippine pesos (£1.7m) of casino chips before fleeing in the mayhem, hours before police found him dead in one of the hotel rooms.
National police chief Ronald dela Rosa said: 
“He burned himself inside the hotel room 510.“He lay down on the bed, covered himself in a thick blanket and apparently doused himself in gasoline.”
The casino chips were in a bag in the toilet.
Heavily-armed police swarmed the hotel in the moments after the robbery as horrified witnesses claimed it was a terror attack.

ISIS initially claimed “lone wolf soldiers” carried out the attack, but Dela Rosa has dismissed the claims.
“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.”
The Philippines has been on heightened alert amid a crisis in the south of the country, where troops have been battling Islamist rebels since May.

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