Prabhakaran killed, war over

State television interrupted its regular programming to announce Prabhakaran?s death and the government information department sent a text message to cell phones across the country confirming he was killed along with top deputies, Soosai and Pottu Amman. The announcement sparked mass celebrations around the country, and people poured into the streets of Colombo dancing and singing. Prabhakaran?s death has been seen as crucial to bringing the civil war to an end. If he had escaped, he could have used his large international smuggling network and the support of Tamil expatriates to spark a new round of guerrilla warfare here. Sri Lanka?s army chief, Lt. Gen. Sareth Fonseka, said on television that his troops routed the last rebels from the northern war zone yesterday morning. President Mahinda Rajapaksa confirmed Prabhakaran?s death in a phone call to India?s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Indian foreign affairs spokesman Vishnu Prakash said in a statement. A health official, meanwhile, said three Sri Lankan doctors who treated hundreds of badly wounded civilians in understaffed, makeshift hospitals in the war zone were detained on accusations they gave false information about the casualties to the media, Kazinform cites Arab News. See www.arabnews.com for full version.