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Bhuj gets new quake-resistant jail [1]

Ahmedabad/Bhuj: The new jail in this town on the Indo-Pak border is finally ready. The 100-year-old Bhuj jail had collapsed in the January 26 quake of 2001 and more than 150 inmates, including six Pakistanis, booked for smuggling RDX into Gujarat, had escaped.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2009
Times Of India (Ahmedabad) [2]
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Natural Disasters [3], Disaster Preparedness [4], Earth Quake Proof Housing [5], Gujarat [6], Bhuj [7]
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