The Tamil Nadu government has decided not to disband the Special Task Force constituted to hunt for forest brigand Veerappan, now that the dreaded tusker smuggler is dead.

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Veerappan was killed in an encounter with the STF near Dharmapuri on Monday night.

Senior Tamil Nadu government officials indicated that the STF may be retrained and re-equipped to deal with Tamil nationalist guerrillas.

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