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'Rebel leader's son injured'

The son and heir apparent to Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has been wounded in a gunbattle with soldiers trying to crush the separatist rebels, the military said yesterday.

The battle to end the quarter-century war is centered around 25 square km of the Indian ocean island's northeastern coast, where the army has encircled the Tigers and tens of thousands of civilians trapped there.