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The head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, has condemned Tuesday the killing of Mario Sy, the third journalist killed in the Philippines in two days, and urged a thorough investigation into the killing.
"Bokova described the killing as very alarming and urged the authorities to bring the culprits of these crimes to justice," UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said at a daily news briefing here.
Sy, a freelance contributor to Sapol News Bulletin newspaper, was shot on Aug. 1 by an unidentified man who entered his house in the province of South Cotabato in the Philippines.
The killing came two days after the double murder of Bonifacio Loreto and Richard Kho, columnists for a weekly tabloid newspaper, Aksyon Ngayon.
"It is very alarming to see three journalists killed in the space of two days and I urge the authorities to do all in their power to bring the culprits of these crimes to justice," Bokova said.
According to media and police reports, on July 30, Loreto and Kho were shot several times by two assailants on motorcycles as they talked in front of a convenience store in the Quezon City neighborhood of the capital, Manila.
The journalists are remembered on the dedicated UNESCO webpage, "UNESCO Condemns Killing of Journalists."
