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A Filipino journalist was shot dead at his home, the archipelago police announced on Sunday, one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, where most of their assassins remain unpunished.

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Orlando Dinoy, reporter for the online site Newsline Philippines and presenter on Energy FM, was killed by six balls by an armed man who burst into his apartment in Bansalan, on the island of Mindanao, said the chief of theLocal police, Major Peter Glenn Isongon.The journalist died immediately, he said, adding that an investigation had been opened to determine the reasons for the murder.

"One of the angles we examine is his work as a press man ... But no one can give us a concrete track so far," Glenn Isongon told AFP.Orlando Dinoy is the 21st journalist killed since the coming to power of President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016, said the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.

The chief of the national police, General Guillermo Eleazar, ordered an in -depth investigation and promised to protect the media from the attacks.In a report published this month, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, based in New York, ranked the Philippines in seventh place on its global impunity index, created in 2008, with 13 murders of unsolved journalists.

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