London, Mar. 5 (ANI): The body of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda will be exhumed after his former driver claimed that Augusto Pinochet's regime was behind his death.
Neruda, famous for his love poems and strong communist views, was thought to have died from prostate cancer on September 23, 1973.
According to Sky News, but his former chauffeur has said Pinochet's agents used the disease as a cover, and injected poison into his stomach while he was bed-ridden at the Santa Maria clinic in Santiago.
A judge said that there is enough evidence to carry out a new post-mortem examination of his remains.
Neruda was a supporter of socialist President Salvador Allende, who was toppled in a military coup on September 11, 1973, nearly two weeks before the poet's death at age 69, the report said.
Neruda is buried in his coastal home of Isla Negra beside his third wife, Matilde Urrutia.
He will be dug up in a 'respectful' operation in April, officials said.
According to the report, while best known for his intense collection, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, published in 1924, Neruda was also an important political activist during a turbulent time in Chile. (ANI)
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