WASHINGTON: Las Vegas police have launched a homicide investigation into the death of B.B. King, a coroner’s office said Monday, after the daughters of the blues guitar legend reportedly accused his aides of poisoning him.

King died aged 89 on May 14 in Las Vegas. King suffered from Type II diabetes for the last two decades of his life.

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