Mario Sy

The 53- year old freelance photographer and regularly contributor to the local Sapol News Bulletin newspaper, was shot twice by an unidentified gunman in front of his wife and daughter in his home in southern General Santos City. Sy died later at a local hospital. His murder occurred only two days after the double murder of Filipino journalists Richard Kho and Bonifacio Loreto.

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