TACLOBAN CITY — A local radio broadcaster was shot dead Tuesday night (December 2) by still unidentified men while on his way home in San Roque, Northern Samar.

Senior Superintendent Eusebio Mejos, Northern Samar police director, said Leo Mila of Radyo Natin, an affiliate station of the Manila Broadcasting Co.’s dzRH, was shot in the head and body and died on the spot.

Mejos said Mila, 35, a hard-hitting commentator, was attacked inside the compound of the radio station in Sitio Naperes, Barangay Zone 3, more than a kilometer away from the town proper of San Roque.

Investigators said the killing of Mila was apparently related to his commentaries including criticism of the revolutionary taxes collected by New People’s Army.“Based on the initial investigation we are pinpointing an NPA hit squad now on their massive operation in the province of Northern Samar. We have been receiving reports of NPA sightings and at the same time we received intelligence reports that the rebels plan to attack some police stations in the province and we have long been on alert,” Mejos said.

Mila was the first media practitioner based in Northern Samar to have been murdered.