Ambushed newsman still in fear

The Daily Tribune reporter who was shot and mauled by a group of men is raring to go back to reporting the news after a month-long stay in the hospital despite concerns about his security.

“I am so eager to go back to work. We would go hungry if I just stayed at home,” said Fernan Angeles, who was recently discharged from Pasig City General Hospital.

Although he would like his life to go back to normal, Angeles said he was worried about his and his wife’s safety.

“We cannot leave our house here in Pasig because this is our only home,” he told the Inquirer.

Angeles, the Tribune’s Malacañang reporter, was attacked by several men on March 11, a day after he allegedly told a police official that Faisal Sangcopan, a drug suspect who had been arrested, had paid off some Pasig policemen in exchange for his release.

Sangcopan was later rearrested and charged with frustrated murder after he was tagged as the main suspect in the attack on Angeles.