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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DAGUPAN CITY—A radio station manager was shot and wounded by a lone gunman in Barangay (village) Pantal here while he was on his way home early morning on Tuesday, police said.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Orlando “Orly” Navarro, 54, was talking to a tricycle driver around 1 a.m. on Tuesday when he was shot in the back, said  Supt. Christopher Abrahano, city police chief.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said Navarro, a commentator and station manager of dwIZ News Radio, attended a party in a hotel here and hailed a tricycle around 12:35 a.m. to take him home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This was the third attack on a media worker in Pangasinan province since 2007 when broadcaster Allan Sison was shot and wounded here. In July last year, Jaime Aquino, a local newspaper publisher, was shot and wounded by a one of three men on a motorcycle in Sta. Barbara town.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abrahano said Navarro alighted at the corner of a street near his house in Barangay Pantal. When the tricycle left, another tricycle arrived and Navarro engaged the driver in a conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“While we were talking, I heard a gunshot. Then, I felt a thud on my back. I knew I was hit,” Navarro told the Inquirer.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ride to hospital</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Navarro, former president of the Pangasinan Press and Radio Club and host of the news commentary program “Orly sa IZ,” said he immediately asked the tricycle driver to take him to the nearest hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abrahano said investigators had yet to establish if the attack was work-related or personal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Work-related or not, we are determined to get who did this. We now have three persons of interest and we are investigating them,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the shooting could not have been done by professional or hired killers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“There were no riding tandem and no escape vehicles,” he said. “It’s possible that the gunman was just in the vicinity.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Navarro, in a radio interview, said the shooting could have been the result of his commentaries against illegal drug pushers and users in the village.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This was the first gun attack on Navarro. In 2003, a politician had threatened to kill him while they were in a gathering. In 2010, a libel case was filed against him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines’ (NUJP) Pangasinan chapter, in a statement, called on authorities to “ensure the safety of media practitioners who are only doing their job of exposing the threats and dangers to society.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jay Mendoza, president of the local chapter of Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), condemned the “treacherous and barbaric” shooting of Navarro.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We call on our lawmen and responsible agencies to get to the bottom of the incident and bring to justice the perpetrators of this senseless crime, which is a clear assault on press freedom and the local broadcast profession,” Mendoza said in a text message.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gov. Amado Espino Jr. also denounced Navarro’s shooting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I appeal to the police to get to the bottom of this crime and get the culprit and mastermind to the bar of justice,” Espino said in a statement. <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reports from Gabriel Cardinoza and Yolanda Sotelo, Inquirer Northern Luzon</em></strong></span></div>
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Philipines: Radio station manager shot, wounded

DAGUPAN CITY—A radio station manager was shot and wounded by a lone gunman in Barangay (village) Pantal here while he was on his way home ...

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Experts capture a one-tonne beast which is thought to have eaten four people and left fishermen too scared to venture out.</span></div>
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<span class="last-updated__day" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thursday 03</span> <span class="last-updated__month-year" style="box-sizing: border-box;">April 2014</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A 1,000kg crocodile said to have eaten four people on the shores of Lake Victoria has been captured.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Locals begged wildlife officials to hunt the reptile after it claimed its most recent victim, leaving Ugandan fishermen too scared to go out in their boats.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Friends of father-of-two Bosco Nyansi said they were only able to recover his clothes, which were found floating on the water, after he was mauled by the beast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The crocodile was also blamed for seriously injuring a number of other fishermen at Wairaka, Rwabitooke, Masese and Wanyange in Jinja district, and Ntinkalu in Mayuge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Experts managed to trap the animal with meat on a hook and it will now be transferred to the Murchison Falls national park.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than a hundred locals and fishermen gathered to look at the crocodile as it was loaded on to a truck at Kakira.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officials in Uganda believe the animal is 80 years old and weighs just 47kg less than the largest crocodile ever held in captivity - a 21ft saltwater crocodile named Lolong captured in the Philippines.</span></div>
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