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Journalist shot dead outside own home in Philippines by motorcycle-riding gunmen: ‘He told me he’d received threats’
- Cresenciano Bunduquin, 50, was killed on Wednesday in Calapan. Colleagues said he’d been thinking of quitting broadcasting to become a chicken farmer
- The killing comes less than a year after another radio personality, Percival Mabasa, was gunned down in Manila as he drove to his studio
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A radio broadcaster was shot dead outside his home in the central Philippines on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a long list of journalists killed in the country.
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Cresenciano Bunduquin, 50, was killed by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Calapan City in Oriental Mindoro province, said police Colonel Samuel Delorino.
One of the assailants died after Bunduquin’s son hit the gunmen with his vehicle as they fled the scene of the predawn attack.
“The remaining suspect was able to run off. The hot pursuit operation is still ongoing,” Delorino said.
The archipelago nation is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, and the killers often go unpunished.
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Radio broadcasters outside the capital were often the target.
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