Unconfirmed reports say that LTTE leader Prabhakaran is dead, and that his body has been taken to a Lankan army camp. Sri Lankan army sources say they have recovered 150 bodies of LTTE cadres but the bodies are still being identified. According to reports all civilians held hostage by the LTTE have now been freed from the battle zone.
The report comes even as the Lankan government announced it had captured the final stronghold of the LTTE, and that the top LTTE leadership may have committed mass suicide.