Due to increasing resistance from the family members of the dead cadres, LTTE is hesitant to accept the bodies of their dead combatants, Army spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told media in Colombo today (February 27).

"Since transporting dead bodies via A9 route poses a great challenge to the LTTE enrollment process, the LTTE disposes bodies of their dead cadres killed in fighting without handing them over to their loved ones", Army spokesman said.

The dead bodies of 14 LTTE cadres, killed in confrontations in Wanni and Welioya on February 15 were handed over to the ICRC in Anurdhapura today.