Dead hostage identified
2004-08-11 17:52
Sofia - The Bulgarian foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the body of a second Bulgarian hostage, kidnapped in Iraq last month, had been identified as that of Ivailo Kepov, BTA news agency reported.
Kepov, a 32-year-old truck driver, was identified in a DNA test carried out by US experts in the US state of Delaware.
He was killed by a group linked to the al-Qaeda network.
Kepov and another truck driver, Georgy Lazov, 30, were taken hostage on July 8 near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Lazov was also beheaded and his body identified on July 22.
- AFP