November 8, 2003	Saturday	Ramazan 12, 1424

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MANILA, Nov 7: Philippine security forces ended a siege at the control tower of Manila’s airport by killing a former aviation chief and one of his men, airport officials said on Late Friday night.

“It’s over,” Edgardo Manda, general manager of Ninoy Aquino International Airport, told reporters. “We can now receive international flights.”

Panfilo Villaruel, a former pilot and air force officer, entered the tower just before midnight on Friday with bodyguards and told employees to leave, aviation officials and a senior security official at the airport told Reuters.