Killinochi (Sri Lanka), Apr 24 : A top Sri Lankan army official has said that LTTE Chief V. Prabhakaran may escape from the country via the sea route, using a submarine.

Several Indian dailies quoted Brigadier Shavendra Desilva, the General-Officer-Commanding 58 Division, as saying, "Prabhakaran, who is present in the no-fire zone along with his son Charles Anthony, Tigers'' intelligence chief Pottu Amman and Sea Tiger chief Soosai, might have retained a submarine to escape from the island."