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Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 04.30 GMT

India receives confirmation of Prabha's death

 
India has received official confirmation that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, wanted for the 1991 killing of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is dead, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram told the media yesterday (1 Feb).

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has received documentary proof of the death of Prabhakaran in May last year, the Minister said.

"The CBI has told me that they have received documentation from the government of Sri Lanka confirming the death of Prabhakaran,” Chidambaram said.

Prabhakaran along with his intelligence chief Pottu Amman were declared proclaimed offenders after an LTTE suicide bomber blew up Rajiv Gandhi near Chennai in May 1991. India outlawed the LTTE in August 1992.


 
 
   
   
   
   
   

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