LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), June 19: Authorities in Bara tehsil recovered 13 stolen motorbikes and hundreds of spurious soft drink bottles in two separate raids on Sunday. The Khasadar force recovered the motorcycles from a repair shop in the New Market. The owner of the workshop expressed ignorance about identity of their owners.

In another raid at a soft drinks factory in the Bara bazaar, the khasadar force took into custody more than 1,500 bottles of spurious soft drinks of various brands.

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