9 rebels surrender in Sorsogon
LEGAZPI CITY -At least nine New People's Army (NPA) rebels have voluntarily surrendered and were welcomed on Thursday by the police and army authorities in Barangay Rangas in Juban town, Sorsogon province, a police report said. Maj. Malu Calubaquib, chief of the Police Regional Office in Bicol (PRO-5), in an interview on Friday said the decision of the former rebels to surrender is a result of the government's relentless Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP). "The efforts of the police together with the army to end insurgency in the Bicol region have reaped new success. Those ...