A TV reporter’s paranoia?

A local television reporter recently sought police help when two motorcycle-riding men tailed him while he was on his way home in General Santos City, 980 kilometers south of Manila.

According to a police blotter dated last 10 October, ABS-CBN’s provincial reporter Sonny Sombreo was on his way home from a “personal meeting” in a local restaurant, when he noticed suspicious-looking men following him.

Riding aboard his own motorcycle, Sombreo sped off to the nearest police station after he noticed that the men followed him even after he stopped at a convenience store.

The men, wearing black jackets, reportedly looked at him as if “planning something to do to him.”

Once upon a time, we might have dismissed this as a journalist’s paranoia. However, these days, one needs to take every precaution. Just last week, Danilo Aguirre, a business correspondent of the Mindanao Bulletin, survived a gun assault from an alleged hitman in the same city. #

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