COIMBATORE: In yet another daring incident of breaking into a bank, an unidentified three-member gang entered into the safe vault of a nationalised bank by using a gas welding machine to cut the iron grills and also the lockers and decamped valuables from the bank situated on R K Mutt Road in Mylapore.
“We suspect around 130 sovereigns of valuables stolen but the bank has not mentioned any specific amount that has been decamped,” said a senior police officer
The incident came to light on Wednesday morning, when the staff of the United Bank of India in charge of the vault entered the room to check the lockers, when he found the doors of two cupboards tampered with and the front grill damaged.
Police suspect that the incident happened in the last four days when the bank was closed for Pongal holidays and the burglars gained access through a school ground to which the iron grill is facing.
“Burglars have entered the ground floor of the two-storey building through the window by breaking the glass panel and cut the grill and the locker doors with the gas welding machine and they had left back all the three machines they had used,” pointed the source.
“The trio broke around two lockers and decamped valuables and fled the scene the same way,” said a senior police officer.
The bank has minimum of 300 small lockers at the safe vault, where customers have deposited their valuables and jewels. As soon as the bank manager learnt about the incident, he informed the police who rushed to the spot. A board, ‘branch closed due to technical problem,’ was displayed on the gate.