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Page last updated at 09:36 GMT, Monday, 18 May 2009 10:36 UK

How Prabhakaran is said to have died

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The leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Velupillai Prabhakaran, is dead, the Sri Lankan military has said.

Charles Haviland reports from Colombo.

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