Exhumation of Arafat's body underway

  • 11 years ago
Remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are being exhumed to help determine the cause of his death.

Al Jazeera's Nadeem Baba reporting from the West Bank capital of Ramallah said that "according to Tawfiq al-Tirawi, the head of the Palestinian committee investigating Arafat's death, the process of exhumation started at midnight local time (22:00 GMT) on Monday".