The military in Sri Lanka said Sunday that the advancing troops had found a camp of Tamil Tiger rebels' elite Black Tiger wing, which is responsible for many high profile suicide bomb attacks including the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Officials from the Ministry of Defense said the Army's 58 division found the camp spanning one kilometer at Visuwamadu area in the Mullaithivu district on Saturday.
It consisted of extensive training facilities of the Black Tiger wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Xinhua reported.
Black Tigers were responsible for many suicide bomb attacks against political and military targets. High profile killings included the murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and the assassination of the then Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993.
The troops also captured a two-story underground bunker in the Piramanthalkulama area on Saturday. The fully air conditioned bunker might be a site frequented by senior rebel leaders, said the officials.
The troops who entered Mullaithivu town last week is still on the search for the rebels' supremo Velupillai Prabakaran whose whereabouts is not known.
The LTTE which began its separatist campaign in the mid-1980s to set up a separate homeland for minority Tamils now find it limited to a small jungle patch in the north.
The government said its war against the LTTE is coming to an end as 95 percent of the territories formerly held by the LTTE have been captured by the Army in a relentless military offensive which started in mid-2006.
More than 70,000 people have died in the island's long drawn- out conflict since 1980s.