(CNN) -- The wife of one of the victims of the Philippines bus gunman has told reporters that she pretended to be dead in order to survive.
Former police officer Rolando Mendoza, upset at having lost his job, held a busload of tourists from Hong Kong hostage in Manila on Monday, and killed eight of them before being shot dead.
Alicia Leung was enjoying the last day of a family holiday in Manila when the gunman boarded with an M16 automatic rifle.
Her husband was killed in the ensuing gun battle, and her son is being treated in intensive care for injuries he sustained.
"My husband was very brave," Mrs Leung said. CNN
