Swiss housing compound to be built in Muthanna

MUTHANNA / IraqiNews.com: An agreement was signed on Tuesday by al-Muthanna provincial authority and a Swiss firm to build 3,000 furnished residential units for poor families in the province. “Each unit will be sold for $5 thousand,” Ibrahim Salman al-Mayiali, al-Muthanna‘s governor, told IraqiNews.com news agency. He did not mention how much the project would cost, but said that the amount required by the Swiss company to execute the compound has been deposited in a Swiss bank. Samawa, the capital city of al-Muthanna province, lies 280 km south of Baghdad. MH (P)/SR 2