Masked armed robbers numbering
five on Sunday dawn attacked the Ahantaman Rural Bank Limited in Abura, in the
Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region.
Police investigators confirm to
MyNewsGh.com that two of the robbers armed with pump-action guns first attacked
the colleague Security men at their security post.
They tied their hands, legs and
mouth with a sellotape and woolen strings and two of them holding the guns
stood guard on them whilst the other three who were not armed but were with
different types of implements managed to break one of the windows open and
entered into the banking hall.
It is gathered that the robbers
after operating for about two hours left the banking premises. One of the
security guards however managed to untie himself to seek help
The police were thereafter
notified about the incident but upon visiting the scene, they detected that the
robbers caused damage to one of the banking hall sliding window and its burglar
proof to gain ingress into the banking hall.
Further damages were caused to
two inner doors of the bank before reaching the strong room which was well
fortified with specialised metal door.
The robbers with a wall cutter cut through the wall creating
a hole into the strong room. They also cut the iron bars of the gate of the
Vault thereby taking away an amount of GHC93,445.45.
The robbers caused damage to two
CCTV cameras, disconnected the CCTV server and took away the CCTV Recorder and
Alarm Panel.
Meanwhile, the two victims who
have no physical injuries on them have been issued with Police Medical Report
form to attend hospital for a checkup
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