Five armed robbers looted Rs6.20 lakh from Gramin Bank, Mungo, just about ½ km from Nawadih Police Station on Thursday morning. The bank does not have any security personnel and was almost empty with only eight customers at the time of robbery, said branch manager Vinoy Kumar Dixit. The bank is in heavily populated Mungo bazaar.
The miscreants took all employees and customers on gunpoint. One of them guarded the main entrance with a local made revolver. The rest had country made pistols with them. One of the miscreant asked the manager to hand over the keys of the cash chest, while the other looted the money that was in the cash counter .They decamped with Rs 6, 19,790 from the bank locker after locking the manager and others bank employees in a room.