How did lottery winner manage to ingest cyanide? (Video)

Top news coming in to a chilly San Francisco today is about the lottery winner in Chicago, Urooj Khan.

The lottery winner collected his winnings then died just one day later. (See that story here: Urooj Khan, lottery winner murdered just one day after collecting winnings (Video))

Those winnings amounted to $425,000.

San Francisco resident, Katie Adler, says: "It definitely sounds like foul play to me. I wonder where the winnings went? Is anyone looking into that aspect of the mystery?"

The body of Urooj Khan will be exhumed from a cemetery in Chicago this morning, says the Cook County medical examiner. The autopsy should be complete by the end of today.

It will be determined whether Urooj Khan ended up with cyanide in his body because he swallowed it, inhaled it or was injected with it. A test of his organs will reveal what happened.

At first the autopsy said Khan's death was from natural causes, but it was on the insistence of a relative that a deeper look be taken.

Back in November, according to Newser.com:

"Full toxicology results revealed...that Khan was poisoned, and his death was reclassified a homicide."

See the video above for more on this mysterious story.

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