Mosul’s last bridge disabled by airstrike

  28 December 2016    Read: 815
Mosul’s last bridge disabled by airstrike
Residents of Iraq’s Islamic State-held city of Mosul said Wednesday that an airstrike disabled the city’s last functioning bridge across the Tigris River, forcing residents to cross the river in boats and further disrupting the IS group’s movement.
The residents said the airstrike happened at dawn Monday. Activists from inside Mosul published pictures of the metal bridge, known as the Old Bridge, showing its twisted girders sinking into the water.

The northern city of Mosul had five bridges spanning the Tigris River, which runs through the center of the city.

Four of them have now been bombed in airstrikes since the government military operation began on October 17, while one was disabled weeks before the operation began.

/AP/

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