UK hostages 'likely to be dead'

[Heidi]

Source: BBC

Page last updated at 07:16 GMT, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 08:16 UK

Two more of the British hostages held in Iraq are now thought "very likely" to be dead, the BBC has learned.

Security guards Alan McMenemy, from Glasgow, and Alec Maclachlan, from south Wales, were kidnapped in 2007 along with three other Britons.

The bodies of two of the other men were found last month with gunshot wounds.

The condition of the fifth man, Peter Moore, is not known. The Foreign Office says all efforts are being made to secure the hostages' release.

Mr Moore had been working for American management consultancy Bearingpoint in Iraq, while the other men were security contractors employed to guard him.


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[vadawg]

2. feck just realised that i knew one of them from childhood and the army

never even knew he was working over there. nemo me impune lacessit

[Heidi]

3. I'm sorry to hear that, vadawg.

:(

Good morning! :hi: