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Thieves steal iron footbridge in Czech Republic
Sep 1, 2008, 13:31 GMT
Prague - Thieves have stolen a 13-metre iron footbridge in eastern Czech Republic with the probable intention of selling it for scrap, local police said on Monday.
'They cut it up with an oxy-fuel torch and took it away,' said police spokeswoman Alena Nedelnikova.
Theft of metal for scrap, driven by soaring global scrap-metal prices, has plagued the Czech Republic for years but in recent months thieves appear bolder than ever.
In April, scrap-metal sellers snatched more than 800 bronze name- tablets from the Theresienstadt Holocaust memorial cemetery.
Police also suspect a scrap-metal robbery behind a disappearance of a four-ton iron railway bridge early this year in the west of the country.
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