British Embassy Worker in Beirut Found Strangled<br />Lebanon said that We are doing all we can to understand what happened.<br />18, 2017<br />BEIRUT, Lebanon — A female British Embassy worker has been found strangled near a highway outside Beirut, a Lebanese security official said on Sunday.<br />Ms. Dykes, who worked at the British Embassy, had described herself on a LinkedIn page as a program<br />and policy manager with the Department for International Development, a position she had held since January.<br />The British Foreign Ministry provided a statement by the family of the woman, Rebecca Dykes, but gave no details of the circumstances of her death.