(CMFR/IFEX) – A Manila-based photojournalist was slain on the morning of 31 July 2006, in Malabon City, just north of Manila. Based on initial police reports, Dick Melendrez, a photojournalist working for the Manila-based tabloid “Tanod” (“Guardian”), was murdered just before 9 a.m. (local time) in front of his house in a neighbourhood of Malabon […]
(CMFR/IFEX) – A Manila-based photojournalist was slain on the morning of 31 July 2006, in Malabon City, just north of Manila.
Based on initial police reports, Dick Melendrez, a photojournalist working for the Manila-based tabloid “Tanod” (“Guardian”), was murdered just before 9 a.m. (local time) in front of his house in a neighbourhood of Malabon City.
According to a report by GMANews.TV, Melendrez was a cousin of photojournalist Albert Orsolino, who was similarly shot dead in an ambush on17 May.
Orsolino, who was also a former reporter covering the Malacañang (the official residence of the president of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo), worked for the daily newspaper “Saksi Ngayon” (“Witness Today”). Police investigation suggests that most likely he was killed by a neighbour with a personal grudge against him.
CMFR is still looking into the circumstances behind Melendrez’s killing.
