NEW : Bone and blood samples will be sent to an Austrian lab for DNA tests . White-gloved investigators carry the former president 's flag-draped coffin . Official accounts ruled the leftist leader 's death a suicide , saying that he shot himself -- with a gun that was reportedly a gift from Fidel Castro -- as Gen. Augusto Pinochet 's troops closed in on the presidential palace . Official accounts have ruled Allende 's death a suicide , but a new investigation is under way . Score: 6 This is something that the country needs , '' a judge says .
NEW : Bone and blood samples will be sent to an Austrian lab for DNA tests . White-gloved investigators carry the former president 's flag-draped coffin . Official accounts have ruled Allende 's death a suicide , but a new investigation is under way . Score: 6 This is something that the country needs , '' a judge says .