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A radio reporter was shot and wounded in the southern Philippines after using a broadcast program to accuse police of being in cahoots with drug dealers.

Cagayan de Oro city police chief Gerardo Rosales said James Licuanan of DXIF radio was shot in the chest as he was heading home on a motorcycle after his radio program late Thursday.

He fell off the bike and was shot again before taking shelter in a nearby fire station. The gunmen then fled the scene on motorcycle.

A Philippine media watchdog says that 123 journalists have been killed in the country since 1986.