MANILA, Philippines -- A broadcaster has been ambushed in General Santos City in Central Mindanao, reports reaching Camp Crame national police headquarters said Monday.

Dennis Cuesta, anchor of dxMD Radyo Agong’s Straight to the Point morning program, was shot by motorcycle-riding men. He is now fighting for his life at the St. Elizabeth Hospital here.

Bong Gonzales, another dxMD Radyo Agong program host, said they had just arrived from Sarangani Province at around 4:30 p.m. when Cuesta asked to be dropped in front of the radio station dxCP along the national highway here.

Gonzales said the victim was on his way to Gaisano Mall here when two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle, offered him a ride.

About a hundred meters from the mall’s gates, one of the men pushed Cuesta from the motorcycle and shot him five times.

Police recovered five slugs from a .45 caliber pistol.