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08/11/2004
Suicide bomb attack injures two British soldiers in Iraq
Two British soldiers are being treated in Germany for injuries sustained following a suicide car-bomb attack on an armoured vehicle near to Camp Dogwood.
The two army technical officers who were on attachment with the Black Watch were flown to Germany for medical treatment to serious injuries to their lower legs. They are said to be in a stable condition.
The pair were in an armoured Warrior vehicle to the west of the Euphrates when it was rammed by a car driven by a suicide bomber. The explosion was heard several miles away.
The attack comes just three days after three soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Black Watch regiment were killed in a suicide bomb attack close to the regiment's base of Camp Dogwood, 20 miles south the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Sergeant Stuart Gray, 31, Private Paul Lowe, 19, and Private Scott McArdle, 22, were killed in the attack on the checkpoint they were manning. An Iraqi interpreter was also killed during the incident. The bodies of the three British soldiers are to be returned to the UK this week.
Video footage apparently showing the attack in which the Black Watch soldiers were killed has appeared on an Islamic website with a caption declaring the car-bombing as a “martyrdom operation”.
The attack on British forces is the second serious incident since they were redeployed northward from the region around Basra to help support an ongoing assault by US forces on militants in Fallujah.
(SP?MB)
The two army technical officers who were on attachment with the Black Watch were flown to Germany for medical treatment to serious injuries to their lower legs. They are said to be in a stable condition.
The pair were in an armoured Warrior vehicle to the west of the Euphrates when it was rammed by a car driven by a suicide bomber. The explosion was heard several miles away.
The attack comes just three days after three soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Black Watch regiment were killed in a suicide bomb attack close to the regiment's base of Camp Dogwood, 20 miles south the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Sergeant Stuart Gray, 31, Private Paul Lowe, 19, and Private Scott McArdle, 22, were killed in the attack on the checkpoint they were manning. An Iraqi interpreter was also killed during the incident. The bodies of the three British soldiers are to be returned to the UK this week.
Video footage apparently showing the attack in which the Black Watch soldiers were killed has appeared on an Islamic website with a caption declaring the car-bombing as a “martyrdom operation”.
The attack on British forces is the second serious incident since they were redeployed northward from the region around Basra to help support an ongoing assault by US forces on militants in Fallujah.
(SP?MB)
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