TACLOBAN CITY — The Philippine Army's 3rd Infantry Battalion on Monday revealed that four individuals believed to be members of the New People's Army in Las Navas, Northern Samar, surrendered to state forces on Sunday and turned over several firearms and explosives.

The military said that aliases Rex and Jayson surrendered on Sunday and disclosed the location of an arms cache in upland San Isidro village in Las Navas town.

Lt. Col. Isidro Vicente, the Army's 3IB commander said that government troops found an M16 rifle with three long and two short magazines containing a total of 113 rounds of 5.56 ammunition, a water pump machine, an anti-personnel mine housing, 40 kilograms of rice, grocery items, materials used for explosives, a solar panel, six android tablets, three mobile phones, batteries, and subversive documents.