Troops of the 59 Division yesterday recovered an improvised High Speed attack craft of the LTTE with three 500hp outboard motors, hidden in a thicket in Chenmalai in Alampil, the strategic sea tiger base which area was captured by the troops less than a fortnight ago.

Military sources said that the boat had been designed in a such a manner that the front of the craft been constructed to store a large quantity of explosives and would have been planned to be used as a suicide craft.

Troops also detected a radar centre used by the LTTE in the coast which was hidden in a location disguised as a fishing wadiya.

It consists an underground bunker made of Palmyrah logs and covered with sand bags and troops recovered wires connected to the radar leading to the bunker.