Body of Afghan leader from 3 decades ago identified
The body of first Afghan President Mohammad Daud Khan has been identified
three decades after he was killed in a Communist coup, officials say.
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The discovery was made by members of a government-appointed commission during excavation at a military base outside the capital, Kabul.
Daud Khan overthrew the last king of Afghanistan, Zahir Shah, in 1973.
His death five years later ushered in a decade of Soviet occupation followed by the rise of the Taleban.