Sri Lanka 'takes last rebel patch'

Sri Lankan troops have captured the last patch of coastline held by the separatist Tamil Tigers, according to a senior military source.Two army divisions fighting along the coastline from the southern and northern ends of the conflict zone linked up on Saturday morning, the official said."The Tigers still have a few square kilometres of land, but not the use of the beach front," he said.Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, had vowed on Thursday to end a decades-old war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) within 48 hours.He also said civilians in the war zone would be quickly freed.