Broadcaster killed in Quezon

CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – A radio broadcaster and tabloid reporter was killed and his daughter wounded after two men on a motorcycle riddled his car with bullets along a road in Quezon province Monday night.

Bert Sison, 60, of radio station dzAT in Lucena City and Top News weekly tabloid, died from nine bullet wounds in different parts of his body.

His daughter, Liwayway, also a local reporter, was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and was taken to the Lucena United Doctors Hospital.

Another daughter Almira, who was also in the car, was unhurt after she pretended to be dead.

Quezon provincial police director Senior Superintendent Fidel Posadas said investigators recovered two deformed caliber .45. slugs from the crime scene on a provincial road in Barangay Lutucan Bata.

Witnesses told police the suspects, who were on a motorcycle with no plates, were wearing denim jackets and helmets, and armed with caliber .45 pistols.

The fled towards Barangay Guis-Guis, witnesses added.

Superintendent Flaviano Baltazar, deputy regional director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), said Sison and his daughters had just come from a party in town and were on their way home when they were ambushed at around 6 p.m.

“We are still conducting investigation if the killing of Sison was work related,” he said.

Baltazar said Sison was driving his blue Toyota Corolla with his two daughters seated at the back when two gunmen tailed them from the town to the ambush site.

Several witnesses were invited to the police station to give information and describe the two gunmen, Baltazar said.

The Quezon police have created Task Force Sison headed by Superintendent Eduardo Somera, Quezon deputy police provincial director for operation.

The CIDG team under Superintendent Ricardo Silab and local authorities are investigating and gathering evidence.  —With Arnell Ozaeta