“The British embassy is aware that there has been a British national killed in Ramadi”, the statement said, giving no further details.
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A Briton working for a USA contractor in Iraq is reported to have been killed as he tried to defuse a bomb planted by the so-called Islamic State group.
The United States, Norway and other countries in the global coalition battling Islamic State militants in Iraq and neighboring Syria contracted with Janus earlier this year to help the cash-strapped Iraqi government rehabilitate Ramadi.
The Briton was killed while trying to defuse a bomb, the AFP news agency reported.
The US company Janus holds a contract to clear thousands of IEDs and booby-traps left behind by jihadis in Ramadi.
“The incident is under investigation, but what we can confirm is that, sadly, there was one fatality, a national of the United Kingdom”.
Another British worker was injured while clearing ordnance in the al-Malaab district of Ramadi, which lies 60 miles west of Baghdad.
Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, was retaken by Iraq security forces in December, seven months after Isis captured the city.
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Large-scale mine-clearing operations need to be completed before reconstruction begins and residents can start returning.
