8:30 pm – Information about the surrender is received by Rappler via text and a subsequent phone interview is done with PNP personnel in Sta Barbara. One of the policemen on the ground asks the MNLF rebels about MNLF leader Habier Malik and is told that "Malik is not with them" and is instead "in the next mosque towards our direction." This is when we are able to speak on the phone with the MNLF member who served as the coordinator. He identified himself as Paulo Casa.