The al-Sarafiya bridge (Arabic,جسر الصرافية) crosses the River Tigris in Baghdad

Baghdad

Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

. It was built in the 1940s or 1950s under the British Mandate of Mesopotamia and connected the two northern Baghdad neighborhoods of Waziriyah

Waziriyah

Waziriyah is a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. It is at one end of the Al-Sarafiya bridge, across the Tigris River from Utafiyah....

 and Utafiyah

Utafiyah

Utafiyah is a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad. It is at one end of the Al-Sarafiya bridge, across the Tigris River from Waziriyah....

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Having been previously damaged by American bombing in 1991, the bridge partially collapsed when an abandoned truck bomb exploded on April 12, 2007 at 0700 local time, UTC+3. At least 10 people were killed and 26 injured, though there were reports of 20 more trapped in cars that had gone off the bridge.

The bridge was reconstructed in a year and two months and reopened on May 27, 2008, when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

Nouri al-Maliki

Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki , also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. He is currently in his second term as Prime Minister...

inaugurated it.