Unidentified miscreants looted cash of about `7.34 lakh from the Cooperative Bank at Kamarda in Baleswar district at gunpoint on Friday afternoon.
The five criminals barged into the bank with firearms at about 12.40 pm when the staffs were busy in their works and customers were in the bank for different reasons. The dacoits after terrorising all those preset in the bank and locking them in a room looted the available cash from the cash counter as well as from the strong room.
Before decamping with the cash by two bikes, they locked the entrance gate. They were reportedly conversing in Bengali.