Mark From Ireland, who has now been appointed Main and Central’s official Daily Bridge Attack stringer, reports that another bridge has been dropped.

Gunmen blow up bridge north of Tikrit Salah al-Din - Voices of Iraq

Tikrit, Aug 9, (VOI) - Unknown gunmen blew up a bridge linking Salah al-Din and Kirkuk provinces on Thursday morning, a police source said.

"Unknown gunmen planted and blew up large amounts of explosives under the Pitrokimiwiat concrete bridge near Makhoul mount, 50 km north of Tikrit, bringing down a large part of the bridge," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

The source added, "the 35 km-long bridge linked Salah al-Din province with Kirkuk."

It was built over the Lower Zab River, a tributary of the Tigris.
Tikrit, capital city of Salah al-Din, is 175 km north of Baghdad."

As you can see from the map, the Lower (or Little) Zab is north of Kirkuk and runs to the southwest, joining the Tigris as it turns to the southeast. The red rectangle shows where this bridge should be according to the sketchy information provided by Aswat al-Iraq. This report has not been confirmed by CENTCOM of MNF-I.

Soon it could begin to get harder to move around within Iraq. As roads are closed by downed bridges, vehicular movement will be more predictable.

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The War of the Bridges

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Pitrokimiwiat Bridge