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UK hostages' families told they are "likely to be dead"

There are reports two of three British hostages still being held in Iraq are now thought "very likely" to be dead. Security guards Alan McMenemy, from Glasgow, and Alec Maclachlan, from south Wales, were among five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad in 2007. The bodies of two of the other men, Jason Swindlehurst, 38, from Lancashire, and Jason Creswell, 39, originally from Glasgow, were found last month with gunshot wounds. The condition of the fifth man, IT consultant Peter Moore, from Lincoln, is not known. The Foreign Office says all efforts are being made to secure the hostages' release.

ITN | July 29, 2009Watch more videos from ITN

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