Radio journalist brutally killed in Philippines

Manila: A radio journalist was killed in central Philippines, police said on Wednesday, the seventh journalist murdered this year.

Leo Luna Mila, who worked for "Ang Radyo Natin" (Our Radio), was shot seven times in the head and body in San Roque town late on Tuesday, provincial police chief Eusebio Mejos said.

"We're still trying to establish the motive for the attack," he said.

He had received death threats for exposing corruption in public life a few weeks before he was ambushed, said Carolina Montilla, head of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in central Leyte and Samar islands.

Mila was the 62nd journalist to be murdered since 2001 when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo rose to power, the NUJP said.