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COLOMBO, Oct 19, (APP/AFP) – Sri Lankan police Wednesday exhumed the body of a retired army spy whose supposed suicide note claimed responsibility for the 2009 murder of a prominent anti-establishment newspaper editor, a police officer said. The 52-year-old former military intelligence officer was found hanging at his home in central Sri Lanka five days ago and was buried shortly afterwards, the senior police source said. But police now suspect the suicide note found in his pocket at the time of his death may not be genuine and want to determine his link to any criminal activity that could have led to his murder. “There had been lapses in the first autopsy and the body is exhumed to carry out fresh forensic tests,” the officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.