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Chile prepares to exhume ex-president's body

May 23, 2011

Chile is now preparing to exhume ex-President Salvador Allende's body to look into how he died.

The remains of Chile's former president are due to be exhumed in a bid to determine whether the former leader killed himself or was murdered, reports bbc.co.uk.

The official version is that Allende shot himself in the presidential palace as General Augusto Pinochet's forces closed in on him during the 1973 coup.

But as his death was never formally investigated, some believe the military killed him and covered up the crime.