BAGHDAD, Nov 16: The kidnappers of British aid worker Margaret Hassan have released a video tape showing her murder a month after she was abducted in Baghdad, her husband and British officials said on Tuesday.

"We can confirm there is a tape that appears to show Margaret's murder," a British embassy official in Baghdad told Reuters. "We believe it is probably genuine."

If confirmed, the murder of Hassan would be the first killing of a foreign woman taken hostage by militants in Iraq.

Arabic television channel Al Jazeera said it had received a tape that appeared to show Hassan being shot.

Hassan's husband Tahsin appealed for her kidnappers to hand over her body if she had been killed.-Reuters