Rs 36 lakh looted from UBI branch

Armed dacoits looted Rs 36 lakh from the United Bank of India (UBI), Bagnan branch in Howrah district today, police sources said.

Four armed dacoits entered the UBI, Bagnan branch, when the sweeping staff was cleaning the bank. They locked the cleaning staff in a room, the sources said.

When the branch manager entered the bank, the dacoits brandishing revolvers forcibly took away the keys of the vault from him and looted Rs 36 lakh from the bank, they said.

The dacoits fled away with the money in motorcycles, sources said.