(UPDATE) CALAPAN, Oriental Mindoro: A hard-hitting broadcast journalist was gunned down by two unidentified assailants early Wednesday as he was tending his chicken store along C-5 Road in Barangay Sta. Isabel in this city.
Police identified the victim as Cresencio Bundoquin, 50, co-host of the radio program 'Balita at Talakayan with Sandy Soriano,' which airs on DWXR 101.7 FM and on his online radio MUX.Bundoquin, together with his wife and son, was tending their store selling dressed chicken at 4:20 a.m. when two unidentified persons approached them and asked to borrow tools.When Bundoquin faced them, the gunman shot him in the face and when he fell down, pumped three more shots in his body.
They tackled the recent oil spill and the actions taken by the local governments, the frequent power outages suffered by consumers, the illegal gambling in the province, issues on the environment, and problems at the provincial hospital.Mayor Malou Morillo condemned the killing of Bundoquin.'The city government of Calapan strongly condemns the killing of journalists as it passionately supports press freedom and the safety of our media practitioners,' she said in a statement.
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