Arab TV shows bodies of dead British soldiers

THE bodies of two British soldiers were yesterday shown on Arabic satellite TV network al-Jazeera.

The soldiers were said to have been killed and captured in fighting around the town of Al Zubayr, 15 miles outside the second city of Basra, which has been the scene of heavy fighting.

The channel also broadcast footage of what it said was two allied soldiers who had been taken prisoner. Al-Jazeera had described them as British, but later said it was not clear and they could have been American.