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| Iraq |
| Roadside Bomb Kills Team Repairing Key Iraq Bridge |
| 2014-08-17 |
| [AnNahar] A roadside kabooming Saturday killed the engineer tasked with repairing a key bridge on the main highway north of Baghdad, which jihadists destroyed last month, army and medical sources said. "Three people were killed and 11 others maimed by a roadside kaboom kaboom targeting their bus," a senior army officer told Agence La Belle France Presse. "All of them were technicians from the roads and bridges department in Samarra," he said. They were repairing a bridge just south of Samarra, whose destruction cut a vital supply line for the army, crippling operations farther north. "Among the killed was the engineer supervising the repairs," a medical source said. The July 29 attack on the bridge left the army and allied Shiite militias with only a secondary road that passes over Samarra dam bridge and is not suitable for the heaviest military vehicles. Samarra, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Baghdad, is a mainly Sunni city but also home to the Askari shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 ISIS has threatened to raze the Askari mosque, IIRC. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-17 19:57 |
| #1 hey now... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-08-17 10:19 |