Dhaka, Feb. 11 -- A new private forensic review has challenged the official ruling that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died by suicide, according to a report by the Daily Mail.

Cobain was found dead at his Seattle home on Apr 5, 1994, aged 27. The King County Medical Examiner ruled that he died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound using a Remington Model 11 20-gauge shotgun.

More than three decades later, the Daily Mail reports that an unofficial team of private forensic scientists has re-examined Cobain's autopsy and crime scene materials. The group brought in forensic specialist Brian Burnett, who has previously worked on cases involving overdoses followed by gunshot trauma.

Independent researcher Michelle Wilkins, who worked with the t...