The body of British engineer, Kenneth Bigley, killed by his kidnappers last week after three weeks in captivity, was dumped just south of Baghdad on Friday, sources close to insurgents said today.
British engineer, Mr Kenneth Bigley
Mr Bigley (62) was beheaded by followers of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Thursday, and a videotape of the killing was handed to an Arabic television channel on Friday.
Insurgent sources said last week that Mr Bigley was killed in the town of Latifiya, about 35 km southwest of Baghdad. Those reports have not been independently confirmed.
The British embassy said it had no information on the whereabouts of Mr Bigley's body.
Mr Bigley and two American colleagues, all engineers, were kidnapped from their house in Baghdad last month.
The kidnappers demanded that all female prisoners be released from Iraqi jails, something that Britain and the United States said was not possible since there were no female prisoners in the two jails referred to by the hostage takers.
Mr Bigley's colleagues, Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, were killed shortly after being taken hostage, both by beheading, and videos of their murders put on the Internet.