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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 11:28 PM
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(Update) Newspaper editor shot dead in Mindanao
02/19/2007 | 12:00 PM

... Hernani Pastolero, 64, was shot while sitting in front of his home in the village of Bulalo, about 910 kilometers southeast of Manila, police Superintendent Joel Goltiao said.

The attacker, believed to be a hired assassin, fled on foot, he said ...

Pastolero was a radio journalist and editor of several publications before he started publishing his own weekly, the Lightning Courier ...

The National Union of Journalists said at least 12 reporters were killed last year alone, bringing the death toll to 49 since 2001, when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took power ...

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/31177/(Update)-Newspaper-editor-shot-dead-in-Mindanao

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