British expert killed while defusing bombs in Iraq’s Anbar

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A British engineer working with the bomb disposal unit in Iraq’s Anbar province died on Tuesday while defusing a bomb left from fighting between the Islamic State (ISIS) and Iraqi armed forces.

 

“While defusing a bomb in the Malaab area in southern Ramadi that detonated at 7 am, a British national was killed and another person was wounded,” Ramadi Mayor Ibrahim Osaj told Rudaw by phone.

 

He explained that, “the British person was working with an American company which specializes in defusing bombs and booby traps,” he said, without disclosing the victim’s name.

 

With help from the police and bomb disposal teams, the Anbar Provincial Council began a campaign to clear the city of bombs and other explosives days after it was retaken from the Islamic State (ISIS) by Iraqi troops.

 

Iraqi troops and their Shiite militia partners known as the Hashd al-Shaabi drove out ISIS from the Sunni province last month, in a major military operation a year and a half after its capture by the extremist group.