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In a daring daylight robbery astatine the Potta subdivision of Federal Bank connected Friday, a helmet-clad thief made disconnected with ₹15 lakh aft threatening the slope employees astatine knifepoint.
Arriving connected a scooter, the fishy smashed the currency antagonistic solid with a chair. Within minutes, helium had seized the currency and fled done the broadside lanes connected his scooter.
Bank loses ₹15 lakh in daylight robbery astatine knifepoint successful Thrissur
The heist took spot astatine 2:15 p.m. portion the employees were having their luncheon break, with lone 8 unit members contiguous astatine the time. It is reported that 2 of the employees were locked wrong the bath by the suspect.
Witnesses said the suspect, astir 35 years old, demanded the keys from a pistillate slope worker successful Hindi. The incidental that took spot successful the engaged Potta junction, adjacent Chalakudy, successful wide daylight shocked everyone.
According to the constabulary it was a well-planned heist. “The fishy spent nary much than 2 minutes inside, choosing the lunchtime to onslaught erstwhile the slope was quieter. The constabulary are taking the incidental seriously, with a peculiar probe squad led by SP B. Krishnakumar present assigned to the case. We are leaving nary chromatic unturned arsenic we analyse each aspects of the incident, including imaginable information lapses astatine the bank,” said Thrissur Range DIG Hari Sankar.
