The BBC website says, "Al-Jazeera apologised for not broadcasting the killing, saying it was "too gruesome", but an official for the TV told Italian television that Quattrocchi had been shot in the back of the neck with a pistol. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3627377.stmHowever, Al-Jazeera is renowned for showing gruesome footage of the dead and dying, and several UK TV journalists have been saying that the death would have to have been particularly horrible for Al-Jazeera not to make the tape public.
My thoughts are with the remaining hostages and the family of the man killed - I hope for his sake that it was at least painless, but that's a small, small mercy.
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