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10/09/2007
Security Contractor Killed In Iraq
A security contractor working in Iraq has been killed in a roadside bombing.
Ray Moore, 40, from Tandragee in County Armagh, was killed when a bomb blast hit the armoured vehicle he was travelling in.
Mr Moore had won an award from the Royal Humane Society for assisting in the rescue of American troops injured in a suicide bombing.
He had been in the military for 16 years before becoming a police officer and later moving on to work as a security specialist in Iraq.
Ray, and five colleagues working with ArmorGroup in Iraq, had only recently received the bravery award for assisting American troops trapped in the rubble of their security checkpoint.
(SP/KMcA)
Ray Moore, 40, from Tandragee in County Armagh, was killed when a bomb blast hit the armoured vehicle he was travelling in.
Mr Moore had won an award from the Royal Humane Society for assisting in the rescue of American troops injured in a suicide bombing.
He had been in the military for 16 years before becoming a police officer and later moving on to work as a security specialist in Iraq.
Ray, and five colleagues working with ArmorGroup in Iraq, had only recently received the bravery award for assisting American troops trapped in the rubble of their security checkpoint.
(SP/KMcA)
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