Australian man shot dead in Philippines
November 12th, 2011 - 10:33 am ICT by IANSManila, Nov 12 (IANS) An official of an Australian mining company has been shot dead in the Philippines, police said Saturday.
Rodgen Conejar, 57, died of multiple gunshot wounds after being attacked by motorcycle-borne gunmen in Bunawan Brook village in Mindanao island’s Agusan del Sur province Friday morning, Martin Gamba, a police spokesperson, told Xinhua.
Conejar was a mine inspector of the Philsaga Mining Corporation, the local subsidiary of Australian gold miner Medusa Mining.
He was on his way to work on his motorcycle when the assailants drove alongside him and one of them fired at him several times using a handgun.
Conejar was the second mining executive murdered in the Philippines this year.
A few months ago, unidentified gunmen also shot dead a manager of Sagittarius Mines, the local subsidiary of London and Australia-listed Xstrata Mines, when the victim was jogging near his home in Davao city.
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