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Customers & bank employees foil loot bid by armed miscreants

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Press Trust of India Begusarai
Customers and bank employees today foiled a loot bid by six armed miscreants who barged into a bank here, police said.

The incident happened at UCO Bank's Muzaffara bazar branch and the robbers injured two employees of the bank while retreating, the police said.

Begusarai Sadar Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mithilesh Kumar said around half a dozen armed miscreants barged into Muzaffara bazar branch of UCO Bank under the jurisdiction of Veerpur police station area today afternoon and tried to loot cash from the branch.

Customers and bank employees raised an alarm, put up a resistance and stopped the miscreants from looting the bank, the DSP said.
 

The miscreants shot at bank's deputy manager Vijay Kumar Singh and injured another employee of the bank Sujeet Kumar by hitting him with the butt of a pistol after they failed to loot the bank, the DSP said, adding, the miscreants also damaged the hard disk of the CCTV cameras installed so that they could not be identified.

They were admitted to a nearby private hospital, the DSP said, adding, both of them were out of danger.

An investigation has been initiated, he said.

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First Published: Jan 30 2018 | 10:10 PM IST

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