Homicide or suicide? Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain may not have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, research finds

Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's death may have been 'homicide' rather than suicide, researchers have found after a fresh review of evidence decades after the Smells Like Teen Spirit singer's death.

Cobain died on 5 April 1994, aged 27, from what authorities described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a Remington Model 11 20-gauge shotgun, with his death being ruled a suicide at the time.

However, now, as per a report by The Daily Mail, an unofficial team of private sector forensic scientists have published a peer-reviewed paper contesting earlier findings, and claiming that Cobain was confronted by one or more assailants, with his death being made to look like a suicide.

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