COTABATO CITY, July 15 -- Police have launched a province-wide manhunt against two assailants who ambushed and killed a local media worker on Tuesday afternoon in Barangay Limbo, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte.

Capt. Steffi Salanguit, spokesperson for the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR), identified the victim as Dennis Pido, 56, a resident of Pigcawayan, North Cotabato and a broadcast media worker for the Church-owned Radio Station DXMS-AM/DXOL-FM of the Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC), based in Cotabato City.

Salanguit said police probers are following various leads that could help identify and arrest the perpetrators.

Salanguit said Pido was driving his motorcycle on his way to work whe...