SEVEN preschool students in Tondo, Manila, were held hostage Monday by a 33-year-old carpenter who was laid off from work by a Chinese school.

Police officials said the Saint Stephen’s High School on Masangkay Street, Tondo, was thrown into panic when the suspect Moises Radan took hostage seven nursery pupils inside the school at about 8:27 a.m.

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