The UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a British serviceman was killed in a barrage of rockets fired at a joint base in Iraq, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Two American soldiers also perished in the attack.
“Last night’s attack on UK and coalition personnel was a cowardly and retrograde act,” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement after the MOD announced the casualty early on Thursday morning. “The people that did this are not friends of Iraq.”
It is with deep regret that the MOD must announce the death of a service person from the Royal Army Medical Corps in Iraq. pic.twitter.com/gnu32fyCMJ
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) March 12, 2020
Some 18 projectiles were fired at Baghdad’s Camp Taji base on Wednesday, a joint base housing US, British and other coalition forces used to train up Iraqi troops. No groups have yet taken responsibility for the attack, in which 12 others were wounded, according to the coalition.
The two others killed in the rocket attack were American servicemen, according to US Central Command spokesman Captain William Urban.
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