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Different flowers for families
of two Bohol media men
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, February 14, (PIA) – On love day, when the beloved get cards, chocolates and flowers, it’s a different set of flower families of two media practitioners get.
This as Bohol lost two media personalities in a day, today.
One succumbed to death after doctors tried to recuperate him from a fatal gunshot wound, and the other, after battling from a debilitating disease.
Engr. Maurito Lim, who goes by the radio air name “Chairman Mao” was on his way to board his radio program, February 14, personally driving his maroon Isuzu Crosswind, like he would every Saturday.
But, this day, before he could get off the car, at about 10:45 this morning, in front of DyRD, a gunman, who accordingly parked his motorcycle behind Lim’s car, casually walked to the driver’s side and pumped a bullet through the window and into the broadcaster’s head.
Lim was immediately rushed to the nearby Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital, where doctors attempted to revive him.
The victim sustained a through-and-through gunshot wound from his cheek and through his right ear.
Lim expired at around 1:15 PM, doctors at Gallares Hospital declared.
Lim anchors “Chairman Mao on board” over radio station DYRD, and newspaper reports said Lim has been known to criticizing local officials allegedly involved in the drug trade.
According to the Inquirer, “Lim was the 34th journalist killed under President Benigno Aquino III,” citing Dabet Panelo, NUJP media safety coordinator’s statement.
Police are now looking at the identity of the gunman, who was caught on a closed circuit television camera installed outside the radio station.
A few hours later, news on the social media spread about the death of Loreto Palapos, a local newspaper columnist, broadcaster and former president of Bohol Tri-Media Association.
Palapos holds a regular daily radio program, “Nangutana Lang” with another media aide, and anchors a program of the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Palapos, 72, has been suffering from complications brought about by a long struggle with diabetes.
He died at The Medical City, Ortigas, according to reports from a daughter, who also asked friends to say a prayer for the departed.
“As some of you know, he has been hospitalized and has been suffering from complications of diabetes for some time now,” the daughter said. (RAC/PIABohol)
