Police task force to probe CamSur radioman's shooting

A police task force will investigate the shooting of Camarines Sur radio reporter Miguel Belen who narrowly escaped death after being shot Friday night, a radio report said Sunday. Radio dzBB's Benjie Liwanag said still unidentified assailants shot Belen, a field reporter for DWEB FM radio station, in Nabua, Camarines Sur. The report quoted local police as saying that no stones will be left unturned in solving attempted killing. Friday's incident was the second attack against a journalist under President Benigno Aquino III's administration. On July 3, Radyo Natin Tabuk reporter-commentator Jose Daguio, 75, was killed in his home in Tabuk town, Kalinga province. He was also a part-time columnist for a community newspaper. Daguio is the first media fatality under the Aquino administration. According to the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines, 139 media practitioners have been killed since Aquino’s mother, the late President Corazon Aquino, restored democracy in 1986. Of this number, 102 killings occurred during the term of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2001 to 2010. Malacañang condemened Daguio's killing and said Justice Department Under Secretary Leila de Lima already ordered to resolve media killings as part of the government's platform of judicial reform. VS, GMANews.TV