60-FEET LONG-ABANDONED STEEL BRIDGE STOLEN BY THIEVES IN ROHTAS DISTRICT
The thieves, posing as state irrigation department officials, used gas cutters and earthmover machines to demolish the bridge. The bridge was constructed over the Arrah canal in 1972 at Amiyawar village which comes under Nasriganj police station. By now, it became quite old and was declared dangerous, the local villagers were not using it and using a concrete bridge adjoining it.
A gang of thieves has pulled off an extraordinary heist by stealing a 60-foot abandoned bridge in Bihar’s Rohtas district in broad daylight. The thieves, posing as state irrigation department officials, used gas cutters and earthmover machines to demolish the bridge and escaped with the scrap metal, reported news agency ANI.
The bridge, built in 1972, was in Bihar’s Rohtas district.
The thieves posed as officials of the state irrigation department
The thieves used gas cutters and earthmover machines to demolish the bridge
“We have received a complaint from the officials of the Irrigation Department. Accordingly, we have registered an FIR against unknown persons. The process of making sketches of the accused is underway to identify them. We have also alerted scrap dealers to pass the information about any such materials to their knowledge. The bridge was 60 feet long and 12 feet high,” Nasriganj SHO Subhash Kumar said.
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. Mr. Shamshi added that they have filed an FIR.
“Villagers informed that some people, posing as the officials of the irrigation department, came to the dilapidated and abandoned canal bridge and uprooted it entirely with the help of JCB machines and gas cutters,” said Mr. Shamshi.
He said the sudden disappearance of the 60 feet long and 12 feet high bridge shocked everyone. Officials of the department have lodged a case against the thieves at Nasriganj police station, he added.
“Since such construction and repair tasks happen at a slow pace, the department would have generated a notice to inform us prior,” Mr. Shamshi said quoting another junior engineer, Yogendra.