Zeenews Bureau
Colombo, May 20: A day after LTTE chief V Prabhakaran was declared dead, the bodies of the other family members, including his wife and daughter, were found on Wednesday.
The bodies of Prabhakaran’s wife Mathivathani, elder daughter Duwaraka and younger son Balachandran were found in the Nandi Kadal lagoon. The bodies have been identified by the Sri Lanka Army. The slain rebel chief’s elder son Charles Antony was killed a few days back.
There were speculations that Prbhakaran’s family might have fled abroad.
Earlier, the suspense over Prabhakaran`s death came to end after the rebel chief’s body was positively identified by his two former top aides. Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna, who was the Eastern commander of the LTTE before he fell out with Prabhakaran in 2004, and Daya Master, who surrendered to the Army recently, were taken by the government to Puthumatalan to identify the bullet-ridden body of Prabhakaran.
"The body is of Prabhakaran`s... there is no doubt about this... Though I am bit saddened that he is no more but the fact is he never listened to anyone. He always believed that violence is the only solution," Karuna, who is now a federal minister, told reporters here.
"It is the same. There is no change in his body. He met with this fate for his own deeds," he said.
The Defence Ministry said "the body has been positively identified as Prabhakaran`s by MP Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan and Daya Master."
