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2ND LEAD (ADDS IDENTITY DETAILS)
LTTE hands over 74 SLA bodies to ICRC[TamilNet, Friday, 13 October 2006, 03:07 GMT]Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) handed over 74 bodies of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in black body bags to ICRC Thursday evening in Kilinochchi. Another soldier's body was brought to Kilinochchi Thursday evening. More than fifty bodies of SLA soldiers are strewn around in the battlefield in unidentifiable state, according to LTTE officials. 133 SLA soldiers were killed in action or reported missing according to the official figures released by the Sri Lankan defence ministry media co-ordinating centre Thursday. More than 200 SLA soldiers were killed when LTTE defense formations under Special Commander Col. Theepan defeated the SLA forces Wednesday, LTTE officials claimed.  SLMM officials Lars Bleymann and Gunnar Johannsson at Kilnochchi playground where the recovered bodies were packed into black bags.
The LTTE Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan said that LTTE had seized 16 Multi Purpose Machine Guns (MPMGs), 4 Rocket Propelled Grenade Launchers (RPGs), a Grenade Launcher, lite anti-tank weapon, 98 assualt rifles and large amounts of ammunitions from the Gemunu Watch SLA soldiers. More than fifty bodies, severely damaged and decomposed state, were still found srewn around inside the LTTE territory and inside the no-go zone, he added. Most of the dead troopers belonged to the Gemunu Watch regiment of the SLA.  Director of LTTE NGO Liaison Office, Mr. Pavarasan, hands over the details of SLA dead soldiers body bags to ICRC representative Ms. Katja Lawrance.
Head of Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Liaison Office in Kilinochchi, Lars Bleymann and Gunnar Johannsson also visited the Kilinochchi Central Playground where the bodies were packed into black bags. Defence ministry media officials in Colombo reported 78 SLA soldiers as missing in action and 55 dead. 283 SLA soldiers were wounded, according to the figures issued by Colombo. The bodies were brought to SLA camp in Vavuniya in four vehicles, media sources in Vavuniya said. 
Identification details of more than 50 soldiers, gathered from various identity cards and papers, provided to media by Mr. Pavarasan, follow:
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