A reports reaching CEOAFRICA news desk is that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, according to a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera.

According to source, Arafat's medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder.

But his body was exhumed last year amid continuing claims he had been poisoned.

The Swiss report said "unexpectedly high levels" of radioactive polonium had been found, which "moderately" supported the poisoning theory.