• Event An employee of a bingo hall in Tortosa dies of a gunshot to the head during an "extremely violent" robbery

The

Mossos d'Esquadra

have arrested five suspects for allegedly holding up a bingo hall in

Tortosa (Tarragona)

with guns , leaving a client injured and killing a local worker.

The police force announced it in a tweet collected by Europa Press this Monday afternoon, a few hours after the assault on the premises this morning.

This Monday morning, a group of men broke into the bingo hall and seriously injured a worker and one of her clients: both were transferred to a

hospital in Tortosa

, where the woman died hours later.

The woman, who died in the

Virgen de la Cinta Hospital a

few hours after being shot in the head, 50 years old and born in Badalona, ​​was in the company of the last client of the premises, who remains hospitalized with a shot in the back.

According to initial information, a group of between two and three men entered the gaming room with the intention of robbing it.

The 41-year-old wounded man, -who remains stable in gravity-, they tried to steal his cell phone, and when he refused to hand it over and turned his back on them trying to leave, he received a bullet in the shoulder.

Although serious, he does not fear for his life.

Regarding the woman, it is being investigated whether the fatal shot, which occurred immediately before the robbers fled, is related to her refusal to open the safe, which could not be forced, or the notice to the Mossos d'Esquadra.

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