Brazil: Bank robbery in Santa Catarina state armed robbers and police exchanged fierce fire
From late night of November 30th to early morning of December 1st, local time, a bank robbery occurred in the center of Crissium, in the Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil. More than 30 masked militants broke into a local house The bank's vault was robbed and the crime lasted about 1 hour and 45 minutes.
The robbers drove 10 cars and brought guns and explosives to the center of Krisiuma. They first set fire to a truck at the entrance of the local police station and threw a special puncturable car on the road. The metal nails of the tires block the passage of police and fire trucks.
The robbers then used explosives to blast open the vault door of a local bank and robbed them.
According to the local city government, six staff members of the city’s Ministry of Transport were spraying road markings near the bank at the time of the incident and were subsequently taken hostages. Three of them were forced to assist the robbers to load the money bags into the car. on.
After that, the six staff members were asked by the robbers to take off their shirts and lined up on a crosswalk on a road near the bank to make it more difficult for the police to catch them.
After carrying out the robbery, the robbers drove to the city of Nova Veneza, which is 18 kilometers away from the city of Crissium.
At 6:30 a.m. on December 1, local time, the police found 10 vehicles abandoned by the robbers in a cornfield in Nova Veneza and found blood stains in them.
Local police said that at least two robbers were injured based on blood stains found in the car.
The robbers in one of the vehicles exchanged fire with the police near the Krisiuma shopping mall. A local citizen recorded the scene with a mobile phone and heard as many as 100 gun shots in just one minute. the sound of.
Two police officers were injured in the crossfire and were subsequently sent to hospital for treatment.
The robbers left a large amount of banknotes on the road in the process of rushing away.
Four men were arrested on suspicion of stealing banknotes abandoned by robbers.
According to local police, two handbags containing a total of 810,000 reais (approximately RMB 1.01 million) were found in their apartment.
In addition, the robbers left about 30 kilograms of explosives on the road.
The head of the local police said in an interview with the media that this is an organized bank robbery criminal gang. They not only rob money and property, but also attack the police.
The total amount of the stolen vault has not yet been announced, and the case is still under investigation.
(Headquarters reporter Xu Danna)