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This is seven news network and we bring you breaking news of a bank robbery downtown,
where the First World Bank has just been struck by what is believed to be
the greatest heist in recent years. Only hours ago, just before the lunch hour
rush, four men entered the bank building through
the main doors, posing as bank customers.
The accomplices who have yet to be identified by the police
were heavily armed, and managed to remain undetected by bank security.
Having located the bank manager they forced him to
relinquish a server room skeleton key. Security forces are unwilling to comment at
this point, but inside sources indicate that the manager
may have sustained fatal injuries during the robbery.
In this server room inside what appears to be a
hollow photocopier, an unknown accomplice had hidden
drilling equipment as well as several canisters of what sources describe as thermite,
a chemical compound commonly used by elite military units to
break through hardened metal surfaces. The drilling equipment was then used to force
the locks of the gate, blocking the way to the underground high-security
vault area. Having gained access to the vault area,
the four accomplices proceeded to ignite the thermite,
in a space directly above the storage vault. While the robbers emptied the vault to an
unknown amount of cash, security forces arrived,
surrounding the building and cutting off all exits and escape routes.
At this point, it was believed that the bank robbers,
who held hostage several bank customers and officials,
would try to initiate negotiations with the authorities.
Instead, they executed what appears to be a carefully designed escape plan.
Using plastic explosives, the robbers blew a hole in an
interior wall, creating a concealed escape route via an
adjacent office building into an unmonitored stairwell.
Police and forensics are still examining data, but can see that there are currently no leads
on the escaped assailants.