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Radio news stringer shot dead in Masbate
Marc Jayson Cayabyab, GMA News
(Updated 5:37 p.m.) A radio news stringer who worked for the campaign of a re-electionist governor in the May 13 elections was shot dead in Masbate province Sunday morning, police and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said Wednesday.
Miguelito "Mike" Rueras, a stringer for Cebu City-based dyDD El Nuevo Bantay Radyo 1280 kHZ, was shot by an unidentified man inside his store at a public market in Pio V. Corpus town, the NUJP chapter in Masbate said.
The gun man fled on a black motorcycle.
Rueras succumbed to two gunshot wounds on the chest from a 0.45 caliber pistol, according to PO3 Menard Danao of the Masbate Provincial Police.
Rueras stopped submitting reports during the May 13 elections as he worked for the campaign of re-elected Masbate governor Rizalina Seachon-Lanete.
The police have yet to identify the motive for the killing, Danao said, adding that they have formed Task Force Rueres to investigate the incident.
Jess Villerba, news director at Radio dyDD, described Rueras as a "very cool" person.
"Walang kaaway 'yan dito sa amin," Villerba told GMA News Online in a phone interview, adding the killing may be politically motivated.
He also said Rueres, their volunteer reporter at Barangay Pio V. Corpus, had not contributed reports since the elections.
“We… strongly urge the Philippine National Police to bring justice to the families of our slain colleagues by sending the perpetrator and others involved to jail and suffer the punitive consequence of the crime committed,” NUJP-Masbate said in a statement Wednesday.
The NUJP said Rueras was the third journalist killed in Masbate since 2003 after Nelson Nadura, who was shot December 2, 2003, and Antonio Castillo, who was killed June 12, 2009.
Rueras was also the 16th journalist killed under the three-year-old Aquino administration, according to NUJP.
So far, 154 journalists have been killed since 1986, the NUJP said. The nine-year Arroyo administration has the greatest number of deaths at 104.
The country's single deadliest attack on journalists happened in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao in November 2009 where 58 people, 32 of them media workers, were killed. Three years after the incident, 103 suspects have already been arrested, while 93 others remain at large.
Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists ranked the Philippines third in its impunity index, a list that measures deadly unpunished violence against media workers. — KBK, GMA News
Miguelito "Mike" Rueras, a stringer for Cebu City-based dyDD El Nuevo Bantay Radyo 1280 kHZ, was shot by an unidentified man inside his store at a public market in Pio V. Corpus town, the NUJP chapter in Masbate said.
The gun man fled on a black motorcycle.
Rueras succumbed to two gunshot wounds on the chest from a 0.45 caliber pistol, according to PO3 Menard Danao of the Masbate Provincial Police.
Rueras stopped submitting reports during the May 13 elections as he worked for the campaign of re-elected Masbate governor Rizalina Seachon-Lanete.
The police have yet to identify the motive for the killing, Danao said, adding that they have formed Task Force Rueres to investigate the incident.
Jess Villerba, news director at Radio dyDD, described Rueras as a "very cool" person.
"Walang kaaway 'yan dito sa amin," Villerba told GMA News Online in a phone interview, adding the killing may be politically motivated.
He also said Rueres, their volunteer reporter at Barangay Pio V. Corpus, had not contributed reports since the elections.
“We… strongly urge the Philippine National Police to bring justice to the families of our slain colleagues by sending the perpetrator and others involved to jail and suffer the punitive consequence of the crime committed,” NUJP-Masbate said in a statement Wednesday.
The NUJP said Rueras was the third journalist killed in Masbate since 2003 after Nelson Nadura, who was shot December 2, 2003, and Antonio Castillo, who was killed June 12, 2009.
Rueras was also the 16th journalist killed under the three-year-old Aquino administration, according to NUJP.
So far, 154 journalists have been killed since 1986, the NUJP said. The nine-year Arroyo administration has the greatest number of deaths at 104.
The country's single deadliest attack on journalists happened in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao in November 2009 where 58 people, 32 of them media workers, were killed. Three years after the incident, 103 suspects have already been arrested, while 93 others remain at large.
Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists ranked the Philippines third in its impunity index, a list that measures deadly unpunished violence against media workers. — KBK, GMA News
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