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Former Chilean President Allende Exhumed

   VOA News  May 23, 2011
   Workers carry the exhumed casket of former Chilean president Salvador
   Allende from his tomb in Santiago, May 23, 2011

Photo: REUTERS

   Workers carry the exhumed casket of former Chilean president Salvador
   Allende from his tomb in Santiago, May 23, 2011

   Chilean authorities have exhumed the remains of President Salvador
   Allende to perform an autopsy to determine the circumstances
   surrounding his death in 1973.
   Mr. Allende's family has requested an investigation to determine
   whether the elected president was killed or committed suicide during
   the September 1973 coup that brought military dictator Augusto Pinochet
   to power.
   President Allende was found dead in the presidential palace as soldiers
   supporting the coup closed in and warplanes bombed the building.
   Official reports said he had killed himself.
   His family was not allowed to see the body and there was no official
   investigation at the time of his death.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

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