The Philippine Star

Broadcaste­r’s 2 gunmen identified

- By EDITH REGALADO

AVA Authoritie­s have identified the t o men ho unned do n radio broadcaste­r Samuel liverio in i os ity, avao del Sur last riday.

liverio, , as ridin his motorcycle ith his ife on the ay to the mar et hen t o men on an- other motorcycle bloc ed their path and shot him in the head. liverio s ife as not hit but she fell off the motorcycle.

i os ity police chief Superinten­dent uerubin analan did not identify the unmen, citin on oin police operations.

He said police are preparin the char es in the event that the t o unmen are arrested.

alaca an condemned the illin and ordered the Philippine ational Police P P to investi ate the incident.

he P P has formed a special investi ation tas roup to loo into liverio s illin .

P P chief irector eneral Alan Purisima directed the re ional police to ensure that the assailants are cau ht and prosecuted.

everal sectors also condemned the illin ith a an una ep. arlos arate sa in that the state of impunit under the A uino administra­tion is orsenin as more and more ournalists activists and critics of the overnment are ein illed.

As e mar the th month of the Ampatuan massacre the A uino administra­tion should do ever thin to stop the illin s. he uc stops ith President A uino he can no lon er pass the lame on some other people or a enc said arate a former ournalist ased in avao it .

ased on the data of the ational nion of ournalists of the Philippine­s liverio is the th ournalist illed in the countr since and the th under the A uino administra­tion.

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