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A suicide car bomber struck a major bridge in Iraq's volatile Diyala province on Monday, police said, cutting the span over the Diyala River.
Police said they did not know if there were any casualties. The bridge, normally guarded by Georgian troops, links the provincial capital Baquba with villages in the north of Diyala.
No other details were immediately available.
Targeting bridges appears to be a tactic gaining popularity with the insurgency. Ordinary Iraqis have begun relying on small ferries to cross rivers, but the destruction of key arteries has the potential to disrupt the transport of military supplies and manpower.
A truck bomb destroyed part of a vital bridge on the main highway south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 3 US soldiers. In mid-May, a double car bomb brought down the Badoush bridge spanning the Tigris in Mosul, and others severely damaged the Old Diyala Bridge and the nearby New Diyala Bridge, which span the Diyala River, a tributary of the Tigris in southern Baghdad. In mid-April, the 75-year-old British al-Sarafiya bridge in Baghdad was cut in two by a truck bomb, plunging a number of cars into the Tigris and killing approximately a dozen of Iraqis.
