Iraq: Child Bomber Dies as US Military Raises Alarm Over Roadside Attacks

A child thought to be just ten years old, wearing an explosives belt, has died in a roadside explosion at the al-Quds intersection, near the oil rich city of Kirkuk.

The 'suicide' attack occurred as a car carrying a senior Iraqi police official, Colonel Khatab, passed by. The official and his driver were wounded and are being treated in hospital.

The report of such a young child being used for terror attacks comes as the US military issued a report showing how difficult it can be for its soldiers to prevent roadside bombs.

The report examined combat operations in and around Baghdad over a five day period. It notes that soldiers found several powerful roadside bombs hidden in two vehicles and also caught insurgents planting a bomb on a street and defused it. Seven American servicemen were also killed in two separate roadside attacks

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