Manila hostage crisis has come to an end and the hostage taker has been killed while some hostages were seen coming out of the besieged bus.

Earlier, Philippine police in helmets and flak jackets stormed the bus after firing shots at the tires in a bid to end a daylong hostage standoff involving 15 tourists from Hong Kong.

The hostage taker also fired from inside the bus.

The driver of the bus, a Filipino, was seen during live TV footage running away from the bus.

Police commandos then surrounded it and were seen breaking the door and windows with a hammer.

The gunman had earlier released nine of the hostages and demanded his job back to free the rest.

The dismissed policeman armed with an automatic rifle seized a bus in the Philippine capital on Monday.

Police said that hours after seizing the bus, he released two women, three children, a diabetic man and three Filipinos including a tour guide and a photographer.

Two of the Hong Kong tourists, both women, were the first to be released, followed by a girl, two boys and their mother as well as their Hong Kong guide, Manila police chief Rodolfo Magtibay said.

She said the group left Hong Kong on 20th August for a visit to Manila and was scheduled to fly back to Hong Kong on Monday.