US soldiers' bodies were booby-trapped
Explosives experts had to dismantle three roadside bombs to reach the bodies of two missing US soldiers in Iraq, whose remains were found tied together with a bomb between one of the soldier’s legs.
In a statement that provided additional detail on the killings, the US military said the bodies of US Army Pt. Kristian Menchaca of Houston, Texas, and Pt Thomas Tucker of Madras, Oregon, were found at 7.50pm local time on June 19 not far from where they were abducted when insurgents attacked their checkpoint.
The military said it waited until the next morning to recover the bodies because an Iraqi in the area had warned the area was booby-trapped.
The bodies were found next to a road near the village of Mufaraji, north-west of Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the military said late yesterday.
“At first light, the engineers cleared the route up to the site of the bodies, fighting their way through three roadside bombs in the process,” the statement said.
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