Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Nueva Ecija reporter killed

SANTA ROSA, Nueva Ecija - A reporter of the government-owned radio station Radyo ng Bayan was killed and dumped in the outskirts of Barangay Soledad, Santa Rosa, by still unidentified suspects.

Supt. Benjamin de la Cruz, town police chief, said the body of Mark Palacios, 42, a resident of the northern Nueva Ecija town of Guimba, was recovered about 6 a.m.

Palacios is a member of the Nueva Ecija Press Club Inc., the umbrella organization of media groups in the province.

He has also been involved in an anticrime group.

Initial investigation disclosed that Palacios was hit by a hard object in his head, said de la Cruz, sustaining bruises in different parts of his body. -Armand M. Galang

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