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Sri Lanka Military blows up Prabhakaran's underground bunker
The Sri Lankan military has blown up one of the final places where the dead leader of the Tamil Tiger militants, Velupillai Prabhakaran, lived.
Since the end of the separatist war in 2009 the house and its deep bunker had become a tourist attraction for Sri Lankan visitors.
Mr Prabhakaran was the founder of the rebel group and led it for 25 years before its eventual defeat by the army.
The Tamil Tigers sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka and was designated a terrorist organisation by more than 30 countries.
Mr Prabhakaran was killed in May 2009 as the army captured the last area of rebel-held territory in northern Sri Lanka.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Sri Lanka says that on Thursday evening people living near the bunker - close to the site of the bloody final stage of the war - were asked to evacuate their homes.
They heard an explosion and saw ash rising from the former Tamil Tiger facility as the army blew it up.
The house in Mullaittivu district contained a bunker descending four storeys underground.
The camouflaged bunker was found by troops in a coconut grove in 2009. They said at the time that it served both as the main rebel hideout and a major residential site for Mr Prabhakaran.
BBC News - Sri Lanka Velupillai Prabhakaran bunker is destroyed
The Sri Lankan military has blown up one of the final places where the dead leader of the Tamil Tiger militants, Velupillai Prabhakaran, lived.
Since the end of the separatist war in 2009 the house and its deep bunker had become a tourist attraction for Sri Lankan visitors.
Mr Prabhakaran was the founder of the rebel group and led it for 25 years before its eventual defeat by the army.
The Tamil Tigers sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka and was designated a terrorist organisation by more than 30 countries.
Mr Prabhakaran was killed in May 2009 as the army captured the last area of rebel-held territory in northern Sri Lanka.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Sri Lanka says that on Thursday evening people living near the bunker - close to the site of the bloody final stage of the war - were asked to evacuate their homes.
They heard an explosion and saw ash rising from the former Tamil Tiger facility as the army blew it up.
The house in Mullaittivu district contained a bunker descending four storeys underground.
The camouflaged bunker was found by troops in a coconut grove in 2009. They said at the time that it served both as the main rebel hideout and a major residential site for Mr Prabhakaran.
BBC News - Sri Lanka Velupillai Prabhakaran bunker is destroyed
