Sri Lankan soldiers captured a Tamil Tiger rebel camp and a factory in the war-ravaged north as government forces closed in on the beleaguered rebels, pushing them into a shrinking enclave, the military said Sunday, according to AP. A defense ministry statement said soldiers seized «a highly fortified camp» in the village of Maruthampuvel in the rebels' last stronghold of Mullaittivu on Saturday. It did not provide details of casualties, but said soldiers found eight bodies of rebel fighters killed in fighting elsewhere in the region. The military has vowed to destroy the rebel group this year. Government forces in recent weeks have captured the guerrillas' de facto capital of Kilinochchi and say they have boxed the insurgents into a small pocket of territory in the northeast. Also Saturday, soldiers captured a rebel boat-manufacturing factory near Maruthampuvel where troops found two fast attack vessels and seven small boats used by rebels for suicide attacks, the statement said. The Tamil Tigers have a naval wing that rams small vessels packed with explosives into government naval ships in suicide attacks.