02 May 2006
Nicholas Cervantes
Shooting
Nicholas Cervantes, 66, a newspaper columnist of a provincial newspaper in Surigao province in the southern Philippines, was killed by unidentified gunmen.
Cervantes had just emerged from his residence in Mandaluyong City in Metro Manila when gunmen aboard a car fired at him. The victim suffered three gunshot wounds in the chest and was declared dead on arrival upon reaching a nearby hospital.
