A gang of thieves haspulled off an extraordinary heist by stealing a 60-foot abandoned bridge in Bihar’s Rohtas district in broad daylight.
Highlights
- Thieves used gas cutters and earthmover machines to demolish the bridge in Bihar’s Rohtas district.
- The bridge was built over the Ara canal in Amiyavar around 1972.
- Arshad Kamal Shamshi, a junior engineer of the irrigation department, said that the villagers informed them that some people pretending as irrigation department officials had uprooted the bridge using machines like JCB and gas-cutters.
- Officials of the department have lodged a case against the thieves at Nasriganj police station, he added.
- The 60-feet long and 12 feet high bridge has shocked everyone, says Mr Shamshi.
- He added that they have filed an FIR.