Security man survives bloody ambush in Iraq

AN IRISH security man who had a miracle escape when 22 of his colleagues were killed in an ambush in Iraq is expected to return home tomorrow.

Padraig O’Keeffe, a former soldier with the French Foreign Legion, was injured when the convoy he was travelling in was attacked by insurgents in northern Iraq last Tuesday.

Last night his father, Denis, said his son had been shot though the thigh, had shrapnel lodged in his jaw and was suffering from an ear injury following a gun battle which lasted over an hour.