In a daring act, two unidentified armed miscreants allegedly looted around Rs11 lakh at gunpoint from a cashier of a private hospital on Thursday afternoon near the busy Khandagiri Square in the city. According to reports, two robbers came on Activa scooter intercepted the vehicle in which the cashier of the Sum Hospital was going to deposit the amount in a bank at Khandagiri. When the driver didn’t stop the car, the miscreants fired at them. As soon as the car stopped, the robbers snatched away the money bag containing the cash from the cashier and fled the spot.
After getting information about the loot, the Khandagiri police rushed to the spot and started a manhunt to nab the culprits. A case was registered with the police in this regard.
Sources said that a police team led by Bhubaneswar DCP Nitinjit Singh interrogated the driver of the car and cashier of the hospital about the incident.
Similarly, another loot incident took place in Nayagarh district on Thursday afternoon. Three of a gang looted cash worth over Rs12 lakh from the UCO Bank branch at Nandighore under Odagan block in the district.
The bike-borne dacoits arrived at the bank at 12.47pm and barged into the bank. They first broke the CCTV cameras and then created terror on the bank premises after attacking bank manager Padma Charan Machhua with a stick.
The miscreants collected Rs 3 lakh from the cash counter and then loot Rs9,47,154 from the bank’s locker. After a few minutes of collecting the money, the trio fled the spot.
After the incident, the Odagan police rushed to the bank. later, Nayagarh SP Bhagyadhar Behera reached the spot to take stock of the situation. Police have launched a manhunt to nab the dacoits, the SP said.