Another journalist attacked in Iloilo

ILOILO CITY, Philippines - A publisher and editor of an Iloilo-based newspaper was attacked by an unidentified assailant Wednesday evening, just outside the newspaper's office.

Western Visayas Daily Guardian publisher-editor Lemuel Fernandez was about leave the newspaper office in Iloilo City's Molo district when a lone attacker hit him in the back of the head with a blunt object.

A witness, Allan Francis Angelo, said he witnessed the attack at the office's parking area. He said the attacker was a man clad in shorts and white shirt. The attacker fled the area immediately after the attack.

Fernandez suffered a cut from the blow and was immediately rushed to the Iloilo Saint Paul's Hospital.

Police say it has yet to identify the suspect and the motive for the attack. (report from Stanley Palisada, ABS-CBN News)