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July 25, 2007
Negros station manager wounded in shooting
(From Inquirer.net)
MANILA, Philippines -- The manager of the Bacolod station of the RGMA
network was shot and wounded allegedly by a deputized officer of the
Land Transportation Office in his hometown of Sagay City, Negros Occidental,
some 80 kilometers north of the provincial capital.
Ferdinand "Bambi" Yngson, 46, station manager of RGMA-Bacolod, was wounded
in the left arm when the suspect, identified only as "Corgo," fired
at him with a shotgun in front of the Sagay public market, city police
chief, Superintendent William Señoron said.
The suspect was arrested immediately while attempting to flee the scene.
Yngson was with his wife, Annabella, an overseas worker home on vacation.
Witnesses said the broadcaster and the suspect had engaged in an altercation
before the shooting. But the motive for the shooting remains unknown.
Yngson was rushed to the Alfredo Marañon, Sr. District Hospital
in Sagay City for first aid. As of this posting, he is being transferred
to the Riverside Medical Center in Bacolod City.
The attack on Yngson, a pioneer with RGMA when it opened in 1998, is
the first on a Negros journalist in about a decade.
(IFJ-NUJP Media Safety Office)