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Thieves steal a 500 tonne, 60 feet steel bridge in Bihar by posing as govt officials
April 10: In what seems to be a rarest of the rare incident is that robbers stole a 500 tonne, 60 feet steel bridge in Bihar by posing as government officials. It took 3 days for the thieves to accomplish the robbery with perfection. This is not the first time Bihar has seen such cases. Last year in December it was reported that an engineer from the Samastipur Railway Division had sold off a railway locomotive engine.
As per reports, thieves, posing as irrigation department officials, stole a 60-foot, 500-tonne steel bridge in Amiyawar village of Bihar’s Rohtas district. The thieves with the help of bulldozers and gas cutters, cut and uprooted the entire bridge and loaded it onto vehicles.
The old, dilapidated bridge was built on the Ara Canal in 1972. As by now, it became quite old and was declared dangerous, the local villagers were not using it, and using a concrete bridge adjoining it. The thieves pretended to be officials of the Irrigation Department and also took the help of local departmental personnel. They stole the entire bridge in broad daylight.
Unique theft in #Bihar, thieves became officers of the irrigation department and stole a 60 feet long iron bridge
In Nasriganj, Rohtas, thieves posing as officers, with the help of local personnel, 1/2@UtkarshSingh_ 📽️ pic.twitter.com/jhnTbUSYDw
— Siraj Noorani (@sirajnoorani) April 8, 2022
An FIR was lodged at the Nasirganj police station by irrigation officials after they realised that they were being duped. Nasriganj SHO Subhash Kumar said, “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.”
As news about the theft spread, social media users reacted by calling it an “unbelievable heist”. One Twitter user termed it as the “Bihar bridge heist” and stated how epic a title it would be for a new Netflix series.
