Armed miscreants loot Rs 30 lakh from bank

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Press Trust of India Itanagar
Last Updated : Aug 02 2014 | 6:03 PM IST
In a broad day-light robbery, motorcycle-borne armed miscreants today looted about Rs 30 lakh from a branch of a nationalised bank and injured a cashier at Doimukh near here, police said.
Three miscreants armed with weapons entered the Vijaya Bank branch inside Rajiv Gandhi University at around 12 noon and fired two rounds, IGP Indrajit Shukla informed.
The cashier, who sustained bullet injury in his left thigh, was admitted at Arunachal State Hospital, Naharlagun.
The robbers fled away with the cash (suspected to be around 30 lakh) towards the jungle after abandoning both the bikes some 600 meters away from the bank, police said.
Police seized the motorcycles and launched investigation to nab the miscreants, Home Minister Tanga Byaling said in a statement.
This is the second incident of bank robbery in a span of one month in the state.
On July 14 last, a group of three armed masked miscreants entered into the Yachuli branch of Arunachal Pradesh Rural Bank in Lower Subansiri district and looted Rs 10 lakh at gun point.
However, police made a breakthrough in the incident within eight hours by arresting two robbers and recovered majority of cash looted.
On December 20, 2013 armed miscreants robbed Rs 66 lakh from a SBI ATM at Nirjuli near here after three armed local youths looted Rs 28 lakh from the Ganga branch of Arunachal Pradesh Rural Bank here on December 5 in the same year.
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First Published: Aug 02 2014 | 6:03 PM IST

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