Since the early hours
of this morning, funeral processions have been underway for the 9 people who
were killed in last night's explosions, among them Sheikh Muhammad Abu Risha, the
leader of the Ramadi Awakenings (Sahwat).
After the blowing up
and collapse of the Al-Ma'moun and 'Japanese' bridges, the Directorate-General
of Bridge in Anbar announced that at least 30 of the 80 bridges in Anbar have
now been blown up, and that repairs will take more than year and cost more than
5 billion Dinars.
Meanwhile, living
conditions in Fallujah are still very difficult as a result of the military
operations that have intensified over the past two days. Initial casualty
figures today show that at least 20 people have been killed and at least 40
others have been wounded in the continuing indiscriminate shelling of the
city's residential districts. The chief resident at the Fallujah General Hospital
In Ramadi, families
have been returning to their homes in the central Al-Jumhouri and Al-Shurta
districts where the situation has been calm recently.
This is in contrast to
the situation in Fallujah, where we have observed the departure of at least 100
families from the city's southern sector and from Al-Nu'aimiya, also to the
south.
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