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Dog used in attack on convoy
26/06/2005 21:31 - (SA)
Kirkuk - Iraq insurgents blew up a dog strapped with explosives in the path of a police convoy, wounding one of them on Sunday, in the second such attack in the same town in exactly a month, an officer said.
The dog was seated on the side of the road and was blown up as the convoy passed through Dakuk, 40km south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, said Colonel Adel Zeinelabeddin.
Exactly one month before, insurgents had used a booby-trapped dog in a similar attack on a military convoy passing through the town but on that occasion the animal was the only casualty.
Dogs are not the only animals to have been used in insurgent attacks in Iraq. In 2003, donkey carts were used to conceal makeshift multiple rocket launchers in a flurry of attacks in Baghdad.
Animal carcasses and even human corpses have also been used to conceal explosives.
Separately on Sunday, two more policemen were wounded in a roadside bombing in the centre of Kirkuk, Zeinelabeddin said.
A third bombing south of the city missed an Iraqi police convoy but was followed by a fourth as US troops arrived at the scene.
Zeinelabeddin said there were US wounded in the last of the blasts but the US military in Baghdad said it had no confirmation of US casualties.
It confirmed only three roadside bombings in Kirkuk and surrounding areas which it said wounded four Iraqi policemen.
In Al-Riad, west of the city, a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near a police convoy, missing it but wounding four civilians in another car, Captain Munther Jasim said.
- AFP
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