Arafat’s Body Is Exhumed for Poison Tests [View all]
Source: New York Times
The remains of Yasir Arafat were exhumed on Tuesday morning as part of a probe into whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The area around Mr. Arafat’s tomb in the West Bank city of Ramallah has been closed off for two weeks as laborers carefully removed the layers of stone and concrete and the exhumation took place far from the eyes of the public and the news media.
Palestinian officials said that the grave would be reclosed with military ceremonies once the Russian, French and Swiss experts had taken samples from the remains. It was not clear how long it would be before the teams produced results of the investigation, though experts said it was likely to take months.
The exhumation took place eight years after Mr. Arafat’s death in a Paris hospital in 2004 at age of 75. It was the result of a television investigation into the cause of his death, which has long remained shrouded in contention and mystery.
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