1.   But the stopped bus was protecting the gunman from the two border police officers on duty.

2.   Then the incident ended as sloppily as it began when the attacker ran into a stopped bus whose driver pummeled him and held him for the police.

3.   The bus first hit the stopped bus and then rammed into two other vehicles, Sutiarso said in a telephone interview.

4.   Elsewhere, police set up barricades on the main highway leading into Manila and stopped buses full of Estrada followers trying to reach the rally.