Danilo Vergara
Year: 1992
Nationality: Philippines
Killed by: Criminal Group
Location: Iligan City, Philippines
Press organization: Philippine Post
What's Danilo Vergara's story?
Vergara, publisher of the weekly Philippine Post and secretary of the Mindanao Press Club and the Iligan Press Club, was shot at close range by three unidentified assailants as he left a printing plant on Quezon Avenue in Iligan City. A security guard who witnessed the attack and attempted to intervene was also killed. Editor of the Post until he became publisher in 1989, Vergara was known to write hard-hitting columns on graft and corruption.
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