Sri Lanka Tiger supremo wounded in air attack

Updated Monday, December 17, 2007 0:00 am TWN, AFP

Sri Lanka Tiger supremo wounded in air attack

COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka’s elusive Tamil rebel supremo was wounded in an air strike last month by security forces shortly after his annual policy broadcast, a privately-run newspaper here reported Sunday. The Nation newspaper said Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was wounded in an underground bunker in the northern district of Kilinochchi on Nov. 28.

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