British NGO worker from Iraq found hanging in Turkey

October 21, 2015 14:10

A British NGO activist has been found dead in a bathroom in an airport in Turkey, while she was on her way to Iraq.

Jacqueline Sutton, 50, was found hanged on Saturday in a restroom at the airport's international transit terminal, Turkey's state-sponsored Anadolu news agency reported, citing Istanbul police.

Sutton, who once worked for the United Nations and the BBC, flew from London to Istanbul to take a connecting flight to her base in Irbil in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

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