The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, Colombo

Sri Lanka soldiers captured a Tamil Tiger training camp as government troops pressed ahead with their offensive against the guerrillas in the country's embattled north, the military said Sunday.

Government troops have achieved a string of major victories against the rebels in recent months - including the capture of the Tamil Tiger administrative capital of Kilinochchi a week ago. The government has vowed to crush the separatist guerrillas and end the Indian Ocean island nation's 25-year-old civil war in the coming months. Army soldiers, advancing into the rapidly shrinking rebel territory, captured a rebel training camp near the village of Mulliyaweli in the last rebel stronghold of Mullaitivu on Friday, the military said in a statement.

There were underground bunkers and an auditorium in the camp, the statement said.

The statement did not provide details of casualties from the fight to capture the camp.