President Duterte of the Philippines has offered the country’s indigenous people a bounty to kill communist rebels, days after threatening to shoot female insurgents in the genitals to render them “useless”.

Mr Duterte, whose controversial remarks have become almost routine, has invited the Lumad people of the southern Philippines to shoot members of the New People’s Army (NPA), the world’s longest-running communist insurgency.

“I’m placing a premium . . . 25,000 pesos,” he announced in a speech on Tuesday, in remarks later released by the presidential palace. The sum is equivalent to about £340. “If you work really hard to crawl across the forest, you’ll surely be able to shoot just one. If you can shoot a bird above you, then how much more an