Filipino Journalist Foils Attempted Kidnapping
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Laguna, Philippines (AHN) - There seems to be no stopping in the attacks against media practitioners in the Philippines. The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines said Thursday that a Laguna-based newspaper and radio reporter foiled an attempt to abduct him Tuesday night in Calamba City, south of the Philippines. The NUJP sent an alert to media outfits to report the attempted kidnapping of Dick Garay, 52, reporter of the tabloid Police Files Tonite and correspondent of Manila-based radio station DzME. Garay, who is also vice president of the Camp Vicente Limp Press Corps said he was actively exposing the alleged links of several police officials in the illegal numbers game "jueteng" operations in the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon. He is now hiding for fear the men who tried to seize him were still out there. He told radio station dzRH he suspects "the mean were hired goons of some people I had hit in my tabloid column and in my reporting." The NUJP said the incident happened at about 10:30 pm Tuesday in front of a 7-11 store when Garay noticed two suspicious-looking men staring at him "they were waiting for me." He went inside the store to buy some chocolates for his granddaughter but was surprised to see the men boarded a parked Hi-ace van with license plate WGL-919. A third man was behind the wheels of the van. He said |
