A headless body in an orange jumpsuit has been found in the Tigris River in Baghdad, the US military has said. A military spokeswoman said Iraqi police had discovered the body and handed it over to the Americans. It is not yet known whether the corpse belongs to a Bulgarian hostage beheaded by Islamic militants in Iraq on Monday. The captors have threatened to execute the dead man's Bulgarian colleague unless their demands for prisoner releases are met. Two of the foreign hostages killed by militants were wearing orange clothes in the videos showing their deaths. Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed diplomat at the Bulgarian embassy in Baghdad as saying he could not confirm if the body belonged to one of the Bulgarian hostages. The captors' deadline for the execution of the second hostage expired at 2000 GMT on Wednesday, but there has been no word on his fate.
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