Two former top aides of Velupillai Prabhakaran flew into Sri Lanka's northern war zone and 'positively identified' the body of the slain LTTE chief, who led a ruthless struggle for a separate homeland for Tamils.

Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna, who was the Eastern commander of the LTTE before he fell out with Prabhakaran in 2004, and Daya Master, who surrendered to the army recently, were taken by the government to Puthumatalan to identify the bullet-ridden body of Prabhakaran.