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In Buenos Aires criminals for two minutes in the bank stole almost $ 1 million

Just two minutes it took to armed criminals, to steal nearly $ 1 million from the branch of the National Bank of Argentina to the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires. Told Channel C5N, RIA Novosti reported. Robbery without a single shot happened on Thursday at 16:52 local time (23:52 Moscow time) on the street named after Abraham Luppi a quarter of Pompey.

Five criminals in sports caps with slits for eyes came to the office of the State Bank in SUV Peugeot Partner white. Four of them using a magnetic card went into a separate room, where the ATM is installed. Then they smashed reinforced glass that protected the entrance to the branch directly. To do this, as a battering ram was used special steel bolvanka about a meter and a diameter of 15 centimeters.

According to one witness (a former security guard), the robbers were armed with 9 mm pistol. Pointed their guns at the bank employees, they went into the store, where they took more than 3 million pesos (about 800 thousand dollars) and 80 thousand dollars in cash. At 16:54 on the SUV had driven them they left in an unknown direction.

Police in the nearby area did not immediately return to the scene on call. According to one version, the bandits previously sent patrol cars off the track, telling the police about the robbery to call the store in another quarter.

The city announced a plan "interception". The exact amount of stolen money is being specified.

Similar to "handwriting" attack on a bank with an iron ingots were committed on December 18 last year at 300 meters from the place of the current robbery. Then the criminals managed to escape, injuring a leg by the police.

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