LTTE Prabhakaran shot dead
Monday, May 18, 2009

PV: Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was shot dead by Sri Lankan special forces as he tried to stage a dramatic breakout from the army encirclement, a military spokesman said. Prabhakaran and his top aides came out of their last hiding place in a small convoy of van and an ambulance and tried to drive out of the war zone, but were gunned down, he said. However, the army is withholding an official announcement till a DNA test of the bodies are conducted. The Tiger chief was killed with two others, who are yet to be identified but believed to be his closest associates, LTTE intelligence chief Pottu Amman and Sea Tigers' chief Soosoi.