WASHINGTON, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- The missing US hostage Tom Fox has been confirmed killed in Iraq, U.S. State Department Noel Claysaid on Friday.

    "The FBI has identified the identity of the body of Tom Fox," said Clay. "The family has been notified and our heartfelt condolences go out to the family."

    Fox, a peace activist of 54, was abducted in Iraq three months ago along with three colleagues.

    His body was found in Iraq on Friday morning.

    Clay said additional forensics will be done in the United States.

    He said he had no information on the other three hostages. "The State Department continues to call for the unconditional release of all other hostages" in Iraq, he added.

    The other three hostages are 41-year-old James Loney, 32-year-old Harmeet Singh Sooden and 74-year-old Norman Kember. The first two are Canadians and the last one is a Briton.

    The three were seen in a brief video dated Feb. 28, which was aired Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television.

    The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigades claimed responsibility for kidnapping the four workers, who disappeared Nov. 26.

    The group said the hostages would be killed unless all Iraqi prisoners were released from U.S. and Iraqi prisons.

    At least 250 foreigners were kidnapped and 40 of them killed by various groups of insurgents in Iraq in the last three years after the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq. Enditem