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Four brickfields fined

20 January 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

A team of department of environment yesterday fined four brickfields Tk 11 lakh on charges of polluting environment by using less than 120 feet chimney in Chittagong. Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, a director of department of environment, led the drive with a police team in Choria and Suyabil area under the Hathazari and Fatikchhori upazilas. During the drive, 18 metric tonnes of wood and burning bricks were seized from the brickfields.