28 February 2009
MISSAN: A local company finalized construction works on a pedestrian bridge over the River Tigris in central al-Amara city at a total cost of 820 million Iraqi dinars ($750,000) on Saturday, a local official in Missan said.
MISSAN: A local company finalized construction works on a pedestrian bridge over the River Tigris in central al-Amara city at a total cost of 820 million Iraqi dinars ($750,000) on Saturday, a local official in Missan said.
"The bridge, which took three months' work, is linking the eastern and western banks of the River Tigris in central Amara," Mohammed Jasseb al-Nouri, the director of Missan's roads & bridges department, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The project's costs were collected from a grant appropriated by the Iraqi government for the province during the Operation Bashaer al-Salam (Promise of Peace)," Nouri added.
The Iraqi government has offered $100 million in an emergency grant for Missan during the enforcement of Operation Bashaer al-Salam by Iraqi forces in June 2008.
Amara, the capital city of Missan, lies 390 km south of Baghdad.
© Aswat Aliraq 2009
