Task force on media killings assures assistance to radio commentator

ROSALES, Pangasinan: The Presidential Task Force on Media Killings led by Presidential Communications Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco on Wednesday visited newsman and radio commentator Virgilio Sarmiento Maganes who survived an ambush on Tuesday morning where he assured Maganes financial and legal assistance in his battle against his attackers.

Egco, the executive director of the task force, was accompanied by Senior Supt. Ronald Oliver-Lee, police provincial director, and Chief Supt. Gregorio Pimentel Jr. in visiting Maganes at the hospital here at about 6 p.m.