LTTE chief's father dies in custody
The elderly father of Sri Lanka's slain Tamil rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has died in military custody, officials said yesteday.
Thiruvenkadam Velupillai, believed to be in his early 80s, died on Wednesday at an army base outside Colombo, a military official said, adding that he had been in "protective custody" since the Tamil Tigers' defeat in May.
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