Another Polish soldier dies in Iraq, seven injured

Corporal Marcin Rutkowski was killed yesterday in Iraq, the seventh Polish soldier to die there since the beginning of the conflict. During the ambush of the four-car convoy eight of his colleagues were injured. The routine convoy was attacked with 16 different type of explosives, buried by the side of the road and detonated by wire. Although the bomb was homemade, General Adrzej Ekiert, Commander of the Polish forces in Iraq, said that the terrorist attack was well planned and that it will be avenged. Corporal Rutkowski was 24 years old and had gone to Iraq as a volunteer. He was married and had a three-year old son. The other soldiers' injuries are not life-threatening. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) T.J.