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Forty thousand dollars in building material was stolen from the Hindu Temple Site at Signal Hill Tobago. A report was made to Tobago police and is being investigated at this time. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.
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00:00All right, so you can see where the truck repulsed into the shed here, and the hire
00:05would have took up the steel from inside the shed.
00:07You can see where the steel and them was inside the shed there.
00:10All right, and we have the blocks on the other side there.
00:16These are some of the blocks that remain from what they had.
00:19We had two pallets of six-inch blocks here.
00:21They took up those two pallets of six-inch blocks.
00:23You can see where it went missing.
00:26And these are the rest of the materials that remain.
00:29Work is ongoing at the site at Signal Hill given to the Tobago Hindu Society
00:34by the previous THA under Chief Secretary over London.
00:38The Hindus are getting help from the Division of Infrastructure via the URP.
00:44TV6 spoke with the president of the Tobago Hindu Society, Pulwati Bipat, on the matter.
00:50And when he went Tuesday morning to work, he said
00:54he was not saying this is right, 16 blocks, but we had two pallets for that block there.
01:03We had three sheets of ply.
01:05I can't remember what ply it was, but then we had a steel, a bale of half-inch,
01:15a bale of three-eighths, and a bale of five-eighths.
01:21So when he went there, he didn't see any steel at all
01:24because now they're trying to finish the front of the building.
01:28Okay.
01:29And then he called my son.
01:31So when we went there, we realized that the steel was missing.
01:36There didn't leave anything at all.
01:39Tobago police are investigating the matter.
01:41They say they are following several leads.
01:44Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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