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16 years after Princess Diana died in a horrific car crash in Paris in 1997, the New Scotland Yard has launched a fresh probe into her death.

According to its recent findings, Scotland Yard has claimed that Princess Diana’s death wasn’t a mere accident, but a murder. It says that the former wife of Prince Charles was killed by a member of the British military. For now, it’s “examining the "relevance and credibility" of the new information.”

The Metropolitan police, however, asserted that it is “not a re-investigation" into the deaths of the Princess of Wales, her partner Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul in a Paris car crash on August 31, 1997.”

"The Metropolitan Police Service is scoping information that has recently been received in relation to the deaths and assessing its relevance and credibility," it said in a statement on Saturday.

"The assessment will be carried out by officers from the specialist crime and operations command. This is not a re-investigation and does not come under Operation Paget," the statement said.

"On April 7, 2008, the (inquest) jury concluded their verdict as 'unlawful killing, grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles and of the Mercedes', " it said.

In December 2006, Operation Paget, the police investigation into allegations that the princess and Al Fayed were murdered, had concluded, just like a French investigation in 1999 that the deaths were caused by drunken driving.

“The development comes ahead of next week's 16th anniversary of the Princess' death as a result of injuries she suffered when the Mercedes in which she was travelling crashed in a tunnel in Paris. Since then, murder claims have continued to be made but have never been looked into by the British police. The new allegations come from the estranged parents-in-law of ‘Soldier ‘, an SAS soldier who was a key witness in the successful prosecution of Sergeant Nightingale,” wrote a newspaper.

AW: Suchorita Dutta