Gang reeled in

FIVE migrant workers were each sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for stealing cables from the Shanghai-Beijing high-speed railway. The five cut the cables, which had been laid but were not in use, from the elevated bridge in Jiading District's Nanxiang area on the high-speed railway at dawn on January 12. The stolen cables weighed 580 kilograms and had a value of nearly 50,000 yuan (US$7,728).

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