Frightening story coming out of Shaanxi province in China (location of the entombed warriors). Ten Australian travellers - all of them travel agents on a famil - were taken hostage. A hijacker (now dead at the hands of Chinese authorities) stormed the tour bus and took the travel agent hostage for about 2 hours before being tricked into leaving the tour bus and being shot by the authorities. According to reports none of the Australian travel agents were hurt. SMH story here.I am never going to complain about a business trip ever again.
thanks to barjack for photo (via flickr)
4 comments:
Does anybody know why the guy took the bus hostage ?
"A hijacker "
You obviously missed the journalists memo. This is a TERRORIST......
@anon 1 - only news I saw said that he wanted to get to the airport
@anon 2 - cant wait for the day we drop all this PC and PR crap and simply call people with bombs strapped to them "complete wackos".
OK ok....
How about a couple of more scenarios,
So here is a local Chinese guy who hears about a bus load of Travel Agents and decides to get advice about travelling to Australia as well as a lift to the airport?
So then the Chinese travel agents at C-trip fearing loss of business see this and decide they don’t like the new competition coming in by the bus load, label him a wacko, get him taken out of the equation and serve this as a warning to other Chinese travelling dissidence not to stray away from local agents?
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