A broadcast journalist who was shot and critically wounded Wednesday in Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte, became the latest fatality in attacks that have prompted an international watchdog to call the Philippines the world’s "most murderous" country for reporters.
Klein Cantoneros, 32, a radio broadcaster, succumbed to gunshot wounds around 11 p.m. Wednesday after being in critical condition for almost 24 hours.
He was the 67th journalist killed since democracy was restored in the Philippines in 1986 and the fourth this year. He was the third journalist to be killed in Dipolog City after the assassinations of Jacobo Amatong in the 1980s and Ferdinand Reyes in 1995. [ABS CBN News ]