Gatti exhumed; Canadian authorities to do autopsy (AP)

By on July 31st, 2009

FILE -- This is an April 12, 2006 file photo showing boxer Arturo Gatti during a news conference to announce his fight with WBC welterwieght champion Carlos Baldomir, in New York. Police say boxer Arturo Gatti hanged himself with a handbag strap that he tied around a wooden staircase column more than 7 feet high.

Boxer Arturo Gatti's body was exhumed Friday to allow the Quebec coroner's office to perform a new autopsy at his family's request. The development comes a day after Brazilian police classified Gatti's death as a suicide. Until Thursday, police in the northeastern Brazil city of Recife considered it a homicide, with his wife as the prime suspect.

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