The officials, at the Georgian Interior Ministry, said it would take three or four days to repair the 70-meter bridge, some 60 kilometers south of Tbilisi.
"The explosion was very strong and it damaged the bridge very badly," one official said. "It is obviously a terrorist act."
A series of explosions in Georgia have cut rail, road and gas pipeline links between Armenia and the rest of the former Soviet Union. Armenia blames ethnic Azeris living in Georgia.
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