Tigers give up, buzz that Prabhakaran body at hand

As Tamil Tiger rebels, ending their 25-year-old war with the Sri Lankan government, admitted defeat and offered to lay down their guns, military sources said a body believed to be that o Tamil Tiger founder leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran has been found but the identity of the corpse has not been confirmed.

“They are taking the body for checks to con firm it is the real Prabhakaran,”one military official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.Four other military sources confirmed the recover and said identity checks were under way.

A senior military official said troops found the bodies of several rebel fighters who had commit ted suicide Sunday when troops surrounded them.

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Two top Tigers surrender, Lanka says Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam end near

Two top Tamil Tiger leaders today surrendered be-fore the rapidly advancing Sri Lankan forces, signalling an imminent collapse of the LTTE as troops closed in on Vellamullivakkal, the possible hiding place of rebel chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran.

Velayutham Dayanidhi, better known as Daya Master, a former media coordinator of the Tigers, and George, a close aide of slain LTTE political wing head S P Thamilchelvan, gave themselves up to the army at Putumathalan in the no-fire zone (NFZ) where the battles are raging, Defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said.

This is the first time that LTTE cadres have surrendered as Tigers are known for swallowing cyanide pills than giving themselves up. The two leaders are likely to be flown to Colombo to be produced before a court, the spokesman said.

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