Relatives of beheaded South Korean hostage
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-06-24 09:13

Kim Jong-kyu, father of South Korean Kim Sun-il who was killed by Iraqi militants, comforts his wife Shin Young-ja (C) during a memorial service in Pusan June 24, 2004. South Koreans, shocked at the beheading by militants of a compatriot, vented their anger at their government which had rejected the abductors' demand to drop a plan to send more troops to Iraq. The woman in left is Kim's sister Kim Jung-sook. [Reuters]

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