PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Aug. 30, 2013) – Motorcycle gunmen shot dead a radio announcer in an attack in Iligan City in southern Philippines, media organizations reported.
The attack, which occurred late Thursday in Buru-un village, killed Fernando Solijon, who worked for Love Radio run by Manila Broadcasting Corporation.
Solijon was heading to his car from a party when the gunmen arrived and shot him several times and then fled after the attack.
Police are still investigating the motive of the killing and whether it was connected to his work.
Solijon’s killing is the 19th since President Benigno Aquino was elected into office. Aquino has repeatedly vowed to bring justice to the families of journalists murdered in the country.
Just early in August, an unidentified gunman also killed freelance news photographer Mario Sy in General Santos City also in southern Philippines.
Sy was shot in front of his terrified family inside their house. The motive of the murder is still unknown up to now, but Sy was a contributor to Mindanao Bulletin and Sapol Bulletin newspapers in the region.
Prior to Sy’s murder, two tabloid columnists Bonifacio Loreto and Richard Kho – who wrote for Aksyon Ngayon – were fatally shot by motorcycle gunmen in Commonwealth village in Quezon City in Luzon Island. (Mindanao Examiner)
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