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LEBANON: Police find strangled body of British embassy worker
Security operatives in Lebanon are now investigating the death of a female British embassy worker whose body was found strangled near a highway outside the capital of Beirut.
The family of the victim identified as Rebecca Dykes issued a statement through the British foreign ministry but did not give details of the circumstances surrounding the death of the embassy worker.
“We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. We are doing all we can to understand what happened,” the family said.
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Britain’s ambassador to Lebanon, Hugo Shorter, tweeted: “The whole embassy is deeply shocked, saddened by this news.”
Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces said on Saturday that the body of a woman who had been strangled had been found by a highway outside Beirut.
Dykes had previously worked in London on diplomatic programmes related to Iraq and Libya.
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