Arafat body to be exhumed on Tuesday in murder inquiry

Then Palestinian President Yasser Arafat sits (center) surrounded by doctors from Tunis, Egypt and Jordan in his office in the West Bank City of Ramallah in this October 28, 2004 (file photo)./Reuters/Palestinian Authority/Hussein Hussein

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, RAMALLAH - The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday.