COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan army chief Lt. Gen. Sareth Fonseka says troops have defeated the last pockets of rebel resistance in the north and are working to identify Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's body from among the dead.
Fonseka spoke Monday after state television announced Prabhakaran's death in battle.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's state television station announced Monday that Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has been killed.
Prabhakaran's death would spell the end of a more than three-decade quest by the rebel leader for a separate state for minority Tamils across northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
Rupavahini television, the state broadcaster, broke into its regular programming Monday afternoon to announce Prabakharan's death. They gave no details of how he was killed.
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