This is 7 news network,
and we bring you breaking news
where the World First Bank has just been struck
by what is believed to be
Only hours ago, just before the lunch hour rush,
4 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
a carefully designed escape plan.
comment at this point,
but inside sources indicate the manager
may have sustained fatal injury during the robbery.
In this server room, inside what appears to be
a hollow photocopier,
an unknown accomplice had
as well as several canisters of what sources describe as thermite
a chemical compound commonly
used by elite military units
to break through hard 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 4 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 exits and escape routes.
This is the police. We know you are in there.
At this point, it was believed
that the robbers who held hostages,
several bank customers and officials
would try to initiate negotiation with the authorities.
Instead, they executed what appears to be
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.