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Boats used for illegal sand mining destroyed [1]

ALUVA: A police team led by Circle Inspector K B Prafulla Chandran, destroyed six country-boats used for illegally transporting river sand from the Periyar at Uliyannoor and Kunjunnikkara area, near here, on Monday.

The boats had been seized when police raided the area last week.

The workers, who were engaged in mining and transporting the sand the from Periyar, had escaped, leaving the boat

Publication Date: 
14/12/2010
New Indian Express (Kochi) [2]
Tags:
Mining [3], Kerala [4], Illegal Trade [5]
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