Miscreants loot Rs 3.6 lakh from bank branch in Muzaffarpur

Five armed miscreants today looted Rs 3.6 lakh from a Bank of India branch in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said.

The miscreants, who arrived in three motorcycles, barged into the bank situated at Sakri-Saraiya Chowk under Kudhani police station area and looted Rs 3.6 lakh before decamping with the money, Senior Superintendent of Police Harpreet Kaur said.

The miscreants also damaged the hard disks of computers and threw them outside before snatching the gun of the bank's security guard, Kaur said adding that the gun was later found lying at some distance from the bank.

Kaur, who reached the spot, said that a Special Investigation Team headed by a Deputy Superintendent of Police has been constituted to probe into the matter.

No one has been arrested so far in this connection, she said.