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<\/div>\nFive\u00a0armed robbers\u00a0raided\u00a0Prime\u00a0Bank\u00a0Nakuru Branch on Wednesday evening and made away with Sh2.3 million.\n<\/p>\n
According to Suraj Rawal, the branch manager at Westside Mall on Kenyatta Avenue, the\u00a0five\u00a0forcefully entered the\u00a0banking\u00a0hall at around 4.30pm while armed with a homemade gun, hammer, knives and a machete. <\/p>\n
Rawal reported the matter at Nakuru Police Station at 6.32 pm and the police report was booked under OB number 98\/26\/1\/2022.\n<\/p>\n
According to him, the CCTV footage showed one of the guards who opened the main door for the suspects.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey went straight to the rear\u00a0banking\u00a0hall where they held nine staff hostage before commandeering them to the toilets and locked them inside,\u201d reads the report.\n<\/p>\n
Rawal reported that the attackers vandalised the drawers and took money estimated at Sh2.3 million.\n<\/p>\n
According to the report seen by The Standard on of the tellers was hit with a hammer and injured on the head. <\/p>\n
He was rushed to Aga khan hospital for treatment and discharged in fair condition, the report reads.\n<\/p>\n
Police who visited the scene recovered a homemade gun, one hammer, mobile phone make Huawei and Sh1,000 note.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe scene was visited by top officers within the county. Police are tracking the suspects,\u201d concludes the report.\n<\/p>\n
Nakuru County Commander Beatrice Kiraguri confirmed the incident and said that investigations have been launched by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).\n<\/p>\n
Ms Kiraguri said the guard suspected to have helped the robbers gain access is at large. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe CCTV shows the guard working together with the thugs after which he ran away,\u201d said Ms Kiraguri through a text message.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five\u00a0armed robbers\u00a0raided\u00a0Prime\u00a0Bank\u00a0Nakuru Branch on Wednesday evening and made away with Sh2.3 million. According to Suraj Rawal, the branch manager at Westside Mall on Kenyatta Avenue, the\u00a0five\u00a0forcefully entered the\u00a0banking\u00a0hall at around 4.30pm while armed with a homemade gun, hammer, knives and a machete. Rawal reported the matter at Nakuru Police Station at 6.32 pm and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}