In Ibagué: without weapons and with shouts they would have robbed a bank, but the employees denounce they were held at gunpoint

The Police stated that the criminals arrived on motorcycles at the bank, but committed the theft without drawing firearms or knives.

Ibague news.

Curious was the robbery that in the last hours criminals committed in a bank in the city of Ibagué.

The case that was registered during the morning of this Tuesday has drawn attention not so much because of the theft or the amount of money that the assailants took, but because of the way in which the event was presented.

Said robbery took place after 8:40 in the morning today at a Banco de Occidente headquarters, which is located on Carrera 5ta with Calle 38, as revealed by local authorities.

They indicated that two men who were traveling on a motorcycle arrived at the scene.

Then they entered the bank, they allegedly intimidated the employees, jumped on the boxes where the workers were, and then took the money.

After committing the theft they fled the scene immediately.

He does not know who and how much they took

When they received the alert call from the employees of the bank, the authorities arrived at the scene but it was too late.

The authorities reported that they do not know the whereabouts of the assailants nor the amount of the theft, since as reported on the Ecos del Combeima radio station, “the bank officials are carrying out the corresponding counting of the boxes, to fully determine how much it amounts to.” the amount of the stolen. However, there is talk of more than three million pesos.

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The robbery was without weapons, they only shouted: Police

Beyond the theft and the amount of money extracted from the bank, the way in which, according to the authorities, the criminals carried out the misdeed is striking.

Well, they assure that they entered the bank without using firearms, knives or any object to intimidate the employees. He would have just screamed.

However, from the entity they have specified the opposite, denouncing that the two criminals were armed and that they intimidated the staff.

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