Liberation of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has reportedly been shot dead along with his son Charles Antony and other Tiger commanders.Unofficial reports said Prabhakaran was ambushed and shot dead while trying to flee Special Forces who closed in on the last rebel fortification.
A Sri Lankan military spokesman said that there has been no identification of Prabhakaran as yet.
On Sunday, four senior rebel leaders were killed in fighting, the army said.
“This battle has reached its bitter end. We have decided to silence our guns,” the LTTE’’s diplomatic chief, Selvarajah Pathmanathan, said in a statement posted on the pro-rebel web site http://www.tamilnet.com on Sunday
A day before, Sri Lanka’’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa had declared victory after troops seized the entire coast for the first time since the war erupted in 1983.
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