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Stolen railway sleepers seized

9 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Pabna

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Monday seized 275 pieces of stolen railway sleepers from Ruppur and arrested one in connection with the theft. Rab raided the spot and seized a sleeper-laden truck. The arrestee, Arshed Ali,26, is son of Afaz Uddin Pramanik of village Ghoshpur in Pabna Sadar upazila.