Two other people are believed to have been injured in the blast.

A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said Government officials had been notified of Mr Sedgley’s death following the incident on Sunday.

He said: “He was working for a company called Olive Group in Iraq. The nearest centre to where it happened is a place called Dhi Qar. The Olive Group website is pictured here.

“He died from a roadside IED, an improvised explosive device, and I think there were two other people in a car with him who suffered superficial shrapnel wounds.”

The spokesman said Mr Sedgley was evacuated from the explosion site by American military forces and was then flown to Kuwait.

He confirmed the security worker’s body had already been flown back to the UK.

Mr Sedgley is believed to have moved to Loppington, near Market Drayton, with his partner about a year ago from Codsall.

Landlord Roger Downward, of the Dickin Arms, Loppington, said: “They were a very, very nice couple and used to come in the pub occasionally when he was home from Iraq.”

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