Nanded Administration Destroys Equipment in Illegal Sand Mining Crackdown

Imagine a place where people were digging sand from rivers without permission.

The government officials in Nanded, India, decided to stop this.

They went to the river and destroyed the big machines, called dredging machines, that were used to dig the sand.

They used a special kind of explosive to break them.

They also burned the boats, called rafts, that were used to carry the sand away.

All of this equipment was worth a lot of money, about 24 lakh rupees.

This action was taken to make sure people follow the rules when taking sand from rivers.