 A POLICEMAN has been killed and two others wounded when a booby-trapped beheaded corpse exploded in a town in northern Iraq. The policemen on patrol had discovered the beheaded corpse in the volatile town of Tallafar west of Mosul, where Iraqi and US forces fought intense street battles with insurgents in September, the Iraqi Government said in a statement. "The Iraqi police officers secured the site and attempted to search the remains in order to identify the body," the statement said. "As the officers approached the remains, an improvised explosive device attached to the body exploded." The Government called it another attempt "to thwart Iraq's efforts to conduct free and fair elections" on January 30. |