Sri Lankan special forces on Monday recovered bodies of three top LTTE leaders and believes that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's elder son Charles Anthony is also dead.

The bodies of LTTE political head B Nadesan, LTTE peace Secretariat chief Pulidevan and another top leader Ramesh was found in war zone whereas, another body suspected to be that of Prabhakaran's son Anthony is being identified, the army said.

However, still there was no word on the fate of the outfit's supremo Prabhakaran about whom there have been lot of speculative reports in the last two days that he is also dead.

The bodies were found during the mop operations in the last LTTE foothold in the no-fire zone on Monday morning, the defence ministry said, adding the Tamil Tigers are now boxed into a 100m x 100m area, north of Vellamullivaikkal.

The development came a day after LTTE conceded its defeat on Sunday saying the decades-old battle has reached its "bitter end" and they have decided to "silence" their guns.

Nadesan, a former police constable of Sri Lanka police, was known to be the political head of the outfit.

Pulidevan was known to the head of "LTTE peace secretariat" while Ramesh was one of the most senior special military leader of the Tamil Tigers.

According to the defence sources in the battlefront, the body suspected to be that of Anthony was found after an unsuccessful and half-hearted attempt by the Tamil Tigers to evacuate their leader's son early on Monday morning.

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