The robbers acted as the irrigation authorities of the Agricultural Agency.
Ara-Sonen the bridge over the canal was stolen earlier this week in Bihar, India. The bridge was not in use, as five years ago a replacement concrete bridge was built next to it. Since then, metal thieves have been on the old bridge several times and taken pieces of it, says for example Times of India.
However, it was unlikely that the entire bridge would be built in the middle of a clear day, as happened now. The bridge weighed more than 500 tonnes and was about 18 meters long and almost four meters high.
India Today magazine according to him, the theft of the bridge was successful in such a way that the bandits acted as the irrigation authorities of the Agricultural Agency. They had been carefully equipped for the project anyway: they had bulldozers, professional equipment, and several cars to load parts of the bridge.
Special thefts have occurred in the past in the province of Bihar in northern India. India Times says that last December, a railway engineer in the city of Samastipur managed to sell a decommissioned steam locomotive elsewhere in Bihar.
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