THE family of Margaret Hassan (59), an aid worker abducted in Iraq last month, said yesterday they believed she was dead.
A statement from Hassan’s four brothers and sisters was released by Britain’s Foreign Office. “Our hearts are broken,” it said.”We have kept hoping for as long as we could, but we now have to accept that Margaret has probably gone and at last her suffering has ended.”Hassan, country director in Iraq for the charity CARE International, was kidnapped by armed men who stopped her car as she was going to work in Baghdad on October 19.- Nampa-AP”Our hearts are broken,” it said.”We have kept hoping for as long as we could, but we now have to accept that Margaret has probably gone and at last her suffering has ended.”Hassan, country director in Iraq for the charity CARE International, was kidnapped by armed men who stopped her car as she was going to work in Baghdad on October 19.- Nampa-AP
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