Philippines - Third journalist slain in space of two days

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that photo-journalist Mario Sy was fatally shot yesterday in his home in General Santos City, in the far-south province of South Cotabato, by a gunman who immediately fled. Sy was the third journalist to be gunned down in the Philippines in the space of two days. “As in the double-murder of Bonifacio Loreto and Richard Kho just two days before, the method used in the Sy murder shows that he was clearly targeted,” Reporters Without Borders said. (...)

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