Stunning video footage reveals the second a financial institution within the southern Paraguayan province of Itapúa was blown up by a gang of robbers.
The explosion tore via ATM machines and left payments scattered throughout the bottom.
Crooks armed with rifles additionally blocked off the native police station to forestall cops responding to the explosion and littered the highway with nails to cease officers pursuing them by automobile.
The Paraguayan Nationwide Police’s chief in Itapúa, Jorge Piñánez, instructed native outlet ABC that about eight people arrived in two automobiles and surrounded a precinct in Kressburgo, a city within the district of Carlos Antonio López.
The closely armed group didn’t fireplace at cops however their presence was sufficient to forestall officers from responding to the bombing a mile away at a Banco Regional department on Friday at round 1am native time.
A gang unleashed an assault on a financial institution in Itapúa, Paraguay, on Friday morning and escaped with an unknown amount of cash. Police mentioned that at the least 10 suspect participated within the bombing of the Banco Regional department whereas at the least eight males armed with rifles surrounded a police station a mile away to forestall a response. No arrests had been made as of Friday afternoon
A resident within the southern Paraguayan city of Kressburgo recorded sounds of gun fireplace unleashed by a gang earlier than they blew up a financial institution Friday. Police have but to say how a lot cash was stolen
The suspects littered the highway close to the financial institution with nails that might have pierced the tires of police automobiles in an eventual pursuit
At the very least 10 suspects are believed to have set off the bomb on the financial institution earlier than escaping with an unknown amount of cash, Nationwide Police deputy commander Baldomero Benítez instructed Radio Monumental 1080 AM.
‘You possibly can see that the doorway to the vault was broken,’ Benítez mentioned whereas including that they had been nonetheless making an attempt to achieve entry to surveillance digicam footage.
The explosion shook the house of a girl who initially thought fireworks had been set off in celebration of Christmas or somebody’s birthday.
‘We bought scared and did not know what was occurring,’ she mentioned.
The lady added that the financial institution has a safety guard on website throughout working hours.
Police mentioned the suspects blew up the door to the financial institution vault earlier than fleeing with an unknown amount of cash Friday
The Paraguayan Nationwide Police is investigating whether or not the suspects who bombed a financial institution within the southern city of Kressburgo on Friday are the identical robbers who blew up a financial institution within the city of Pirapó on September 14
The financial institution robbers torched a automobile in the midst of a highway 18 miles away from the department that they had blown up Friday morning in southern Paraguay
Police discovered from residents that the gang had posted armed people at a number of key factors in Kressburgo.
The crooks additionally set a automobile on fireplace on a highway 18 miles from the financial institution. And Piñánez mentioned the attackers positioned massive nails on alongside the highway to forestall the police chasing after them.
He instructed La Nación newspapers that forensic staff had been within the early phases of figuring out if Friday morning’s blast might be linked to the September 14 bombing of financial institution within the Itapúa city of Pirapó.
No arrests had been reported as of Friday afternoon.
