Journalist hurt in CamSur ambush
07/11/2010 A radio announcer who worked for a politician in the May 10 elections was shot, police said yesterday, the latest attack on a journalist in a country regarded as one of the most dangerous for the media. Police were guarding the hospital room of broadcaster Miguel Belen after he was ambushed late Friday, Senior Supt. Jonathan Ablang told reporters by telephone. The severity of Belen’s injuries was not disclosed. The 48-year-old reporter for dwEB radio was shot repeatedly by at least one of two suspects on a motorcycle as Belen rode home from work on another motorcycle, he added. “We’re checking his cellphone records to determine who had called him prior to the attack,” Ablang said. Belen is the second journalist to be attacked by gunmen since President Aquino took office on June 30. A provincial broadcaster was shot dead in the northern Philippines last July 3..... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100711hed6.htm |
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