REBEL SURRENDERS IN ISABELA

A NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY (NPA) rebel surrendered to government authorities in Cauayan City in Isabela province, police said on Saturday. The surrenderer was identified as alias Kikoy, 32, a Cauayan City resident. He was a former member of the NPA's Central Front Reynaldo Piñon Command under a certain Gerome from 2010 to 2014. Police said Kikoy also surrendered an improvised 12-gauge shotgun marked "RMF" without a serial number and loaded with two live ammunition. The voluntary surrender of Kikoy was a result of an intensified implementation of the project Sustaining the Advocacy to Grind Insurgency in the Province or Sagip of the Isabela police provincial office in collaboration with the Philippine Army and Philippine Air Force.