Armed miscreants looted a branch of the nationalised Bank of Baroda in broad daylight in the Basta area in Baleswar district on Friday by threatening the staffs and customers and locking them in the bank from outside before fleeing from the scene.
Police, on information, rushed to the site and entered into the bank after cutting the lock. According to preliminary investigation reports, about Rs 8 lakh was looted.
Reportedly, there were six to eight of the looters, including two masked ones. Two others kept watch from outside. They all fled from the scene after committing crime by a Bolero parked on the nearby NH to an unknown destination.
Reports said that close to about 1:50 pm, the miscreants armed with pistols and sharp weapons entered the bank and severed the CCTV connections before beginning their operation. They pushed all the staffs and customers into the manager’s room and looted the cash from the drawers and boxes by threatening them at gun points.
They also snatched Rs 60,000 from a customer present in the bank. They were speaking in Bengali.