MANILA (Reuters) - Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a radio journalist outside his home in the Philippines on Tuesday, police said, four years after the broadcaster survived a near-identical assassination attempt. Virgilio Maganes, 62, based in the province of Pangasinan, northwest of Manila, was shot six times and died at the scene, they said in a statement. The Presidential Task Force on Media Security described the killing as “an act of cowardice” and vowed to hunt down those responsible. Maganes had survived the previous attempt on his life in November 2016 by playing dead. “We demand that the authorities work fast to solve his death, which could be related to the botched attempt on his life,” the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said in a statement. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said both his murder and the 2016 attack would be investigated to establish whether they were linked to his work as a journalist.