The Iraqi militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna has claimed in an Internet statement that it abducted and killed a Briton and a Swede in the central Iraqi city of Beiji.
"The lions of the faith of Prophet Mohammad were able to ambush and kidnap two agents - a Briton and a Swede - working for the intelligence agency of the infidel forces in Beiji and God's law was enforced by killing them," said the statement posted on an Islamist website said.
A Briton and an Iraqi were killed yesterday in an ambush while travelling in convoy near Beiji. Their employers confirmed a third foreign national was missing.