Radio correspondent survives ambush in San Jose City

A correspondent of dzMM radio station was shot and wounded by a man aboard a motorcycle in San Jose City on Friday.

Rufino “Butch” Gamboa was aboard a tricycle on his way home when he was attacked.

Gamboa, who is also a reporter for the provincial radio station dwNE , suffered two bullet wounds in his left arm and chest. He covered an affair where Nueva Ecija Vice Gov. Mariano Cristino Joson was the speaker on Friday.

Gamboa’s son took him to the affair aboard the family’s jeepney. Gamboa, however, decided to send his son home earlier and he took a tricycle after his coverage.

The motorcycle went close to the driver’s side of the tricycle and the gunman fired successively at Gamboa.
Gamboa, though wounded, alighted from the tricycle and ran. -Anselmo S. Roque