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The body of a British diplomat who worked at the UK Embassy in Beirut has been found by Lebanese police. The BBC reported that there is suspicion she was murdered.
Rebecca Dykes’s body was found on Saturday next to the Metn expressway.
British embassy worker found murdered in Lebanon
Ms Dykes had been working in Beirut as the programme and policy manager for the Department for International Development since January 2017.
It is believed Ms Dykes had spent Friday evening at a going-away party for a colleague in the popular Gemmayzeh district of Beirut, the BBC's Middle East correspondent Martin Patience said.
After leaving the bar at about midnight it appear she was abducted. Her body was found close to a motorway on the outskirts of the city.
Lebanon murder probe as Briton found dead
She was strangled and it doesn't look like there is whole lot more about it yet.
Rebecca Dykes’s body was found on Saturday next to the Metn expressway.
British embassy worker found murdered in Lebanon
Ms Dykes had been working in Beirut as the programme and policy manager for the Department for International Development since January 2017.
It is believed Ms Dykes had spent Friday evening at a going-away party for a colleague in the popular Gemmayzeh district of Beirut, the BBC's Middle East correspondent Martin Patience said.
After leaving the bar at about midnight it appear she was abducted. Her body was found close to a motorway on the outskirts of the city.
Lebanon murder probe as Briton found dead
She was strangled and it doesn't look like there is whole lot more about it yet.
