Three San Juanico TV reporters were harassed and threatened with gunshots in Barangay Jones, Pastrana, Leyte on Friday morning, July 14.

According to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, the reporters were covering a land dispute in the area when a plainclothes cop, identified as Staff Sargeant Rhea Mae Baleos, confronted them and ordered them to leave the area.

Baleos grabbed and shoved one of the reporters who was taking a video of the scene. Out of nowhere, gunshots were heard being fired in the distance. One of the reporters said he saw policemen in uniform firing the shots.

/”Wag kayong magpapaputok! Mga media kami (Don’t shoot! We’re from the media),/” reporter Ted Tomas shouted at the scene. https://www.rappler.com/nation/visayas/video-journalists-harassed-threatened-gunshots-leyte/

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