Rs 51 lakh looted from two Jharkhand banks

Two banks in Jharkhand were looted on Tuesday of Rs 51 lakh, police said.

The first incident took place at Giridih district when four armed men arrived on two bikes at a Union Bank of India branch, locked the staff and customers in a washroom and escaped with Rs 30 lakh.

In Hazaribagh district, six criminals barged into the Allahabad Bank at Ichak pretending to be customers. They looted Rs 21 lakh at gun point.

--IANS

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