Friday Photo: Bridge Under Troubled Waters
ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images Baghdad, IRAQ: Iraqi women use their mobile phones to take photographs of Baghdad’s collapsed al-Sarrafiyah bridge where a suicide bomber blew himself up in a truck, 12 April 2007. The bombing damaged the bridge which spanned on the Tigris River and killed eight people, a security official said. The attack happened during ...
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Baghdad, IRAQ: Iraqi women use their mobile phones to take photographs of Baghdad's collapsed al-Sarrafiyah bridge where a suicide bomber blew himself up in a truck, 12 April 2007. The bombing damaged the bridge which spanned on the Tigris River and killed eight people, a security official said. The attack happened during the morning rush hour on the Al-Sarafiyah Bridge which connects the Shiite Al-Atafiyah neighbourhood on the western bank of the Tigris, to the Sunni neighbourhood of Waziriyah on the eastern bank. Eight people were killed and 22 wounded in the explosion, the force of which saw the bridge partially collapse, said the security official.
Baghdad, IRAQ: Iraqi women use their mobile phones to take photographs of Baghdad’s collapsed al-Sarrafiyah bridge where a suicide bomber blew himself up in a truck, 12 April 2007. The bombing damaged the bridge which spanned on the Tigris River and killed eight people, a security official said. The attack happened during the morning rush hour on the Al-Sarafiyah Bridge which connects the Shiite Al-Atafiyah neighbourhood on the western bank of the Tigris, to the Sunni neighbourhood of Waziriyah on the eastern bank. Eight people were killed and 22 wounded in the explosion, the force of which saw the bridge partially collapse, said the security official.
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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