Divided City Cheers Bridge Restoration
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Workers hoisted the final stone into the central arch of an Ottoman-era bridge in Mostar, restoring the span that was shattered in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s war and reuniting an ethnically divided city.
Hundreds of Muslims and Croats in Mostar, about 45 miles southwest of Sarajevo, mobbed both sides of the 16th century bridge despite 104-degree heat.
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