Filipino journalist Virgilio Maganes has been shot dead, in the second attempt on his life. Maganes was a commentator for DWPR radio station, and was 62 years old.
The Philippines is 7th on the CPJ’s Global Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country’s population.
The Guardian published an article on Maganes’ death which can be read here.