Another journalist murdered

Last Tuesday night, broadcast journalist Maria Vilma Rodriguez was sitting together with her mother, sister, and nephew at a store near her house in Zamboanga City. A motorcycle pulled up, and one of the bikers opened fire, hitting Rodriguez three times. Rodriguez managed to run across the road to her house and told her daughter about the attack, but she died later in a hospital.

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Rodriguez, who worked for radio station e-Media in the city, is the fifth journalist to be murdered in the country since Ferdinand Marcos Jr. became President. Her death brings to 200 the number of journalists killed in the Philippines since democracy was restored in 1986. She is the second female journalist to be gunned down in Zamboanga City, after radio broadcaster Gloria Martin in 1992, and the fourth media worker killed in the city since 1986.