GenSan newsman found dead

GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines – A correspondent of a local vernacular paper and a block timer in a radio station owned by businessman Danding Cojuangco was found dead last Saturday night with his head smashed with a concrete object, police said.

The victim, Chito Abuzo, 59, a correspondent of the Sapol News Bulletin, was found lifeless in a rest house of radio station dxGS in Barangay Lagao here, the left part of his head smashed with a “five-kilo concrete object,” said prober SPO2 Angel Marquez.

Police said Abuzo joined fellow block timers Dodong Cabrera and Onel Solamin in a drinking spree at the rest house after his nightly health program “Ang Panglawas,” which he co-hosted with Cris Guarin.

But Cabrera and Solamin denied any knowledge of the killing, saying they went home ahead and left Abuzo alone, Marquez said.

Engineer Bonifacio Galindo, a radio operator, said he heard something dropping on the floor, prompting him to look through the window.

He said he saw Abuzo slumping on the floor, and immediately sought police help.

Galindo told probers that he saw the Kia car of a certain Eddie Ferrari, live-in partner of block timer Gigi Dominice, going out of the rest house compound.

Senior Superintendent Marcelo Pintac, city police chief, said they are focusing their probe on Ferrari. – With Nonong Baliao