Body not Hassan but she is still presumed dead

The mutilated body of a Western woman found in the Iraqi city of Fallujah is definitely not that of Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan, the British Foreign Office said today.

Body not Hassan but she is still presumed dead

The mutilated body of a Western woman found in the Iraqi city of Fallujah is definitely not that of Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan, the British Foreign Office said today.

Dental tests had proved that the body – found by US Marines last month as they scoured the battle scarred city for militants – was not that of the aid worker, a spokesman said.

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