London, July 6 (ANI): The body of American chess champion Bobby Fischer has been exhumed in Iceland in a bid to clarify if he is the father of a nine-year-old girl from the Philippines.
According to police district commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson, Fischer's body was dug up from a cemetery near Selfoss in southern Iceland in the presence of a doctor, a priest and other officials.
Fischer died in Iceland in January 2008 aged 64. He left no will, and legal wrangling continues over his estate, the Telegraph reported.
The body was exhumed after Iceland's supreme court ruled that DNA testing was required to be done to determine if Fischer was the father of Jinky Young, whose mother Marilyn says she had a relationship with him.
Jinky, who lives in the Philippines with her mother, flew to Iceland to provide her own blood sample in December. (ANI)
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