Breaking News (突发新闻) - Simon Viklund
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News of a bank robbery downtown
The first world bank has just been struck by
What is believed to be the greatest heist in recent years
Only hours ago just before the lunch-hour rush
Four men entered the bank building through
The main doors posing as bank customers
The accomplices who have yet to be identified by the police
Were heavily armed and managed to remain undetected by bank security
Having located the bank manager
They forced him to relinquish a server room skeleton key
Security forces are unwilling to comment at this point
But inside sources indicate that the manager
May have sustaiined fatal injuries during the robbery
In this server room inside what appears to be a hollow photocopier
An unknown accomplice had hidden drilling equipment
As well as several canisters of what sources describe as 'thermite'
A chemical compound commonly used by elite military
Units to break through hardened metal surfaces
The drilling equipment was then used to force
The locks of the gate blocking the way to the underground
High-security vault area
Having gained access to the vault area
The four accomplices proceeded to ignite the thermite
In a s***e directly above the storage vault
While the robbers emptied the vault of an unknown amount of cash
Security forces arrived surrounding the building
And cutting off all access and escape routes
At this point it was believed the bank robbers
Who held hostage several bank customers and officials
Would try to initiate negotiations with the authorities
Instead they executed what appears
To be a carefully designed escape plan
Using plastic explosives the robbers blew
A hole in an interior wall
Creating a concealed escape route via
An adjacent office building into an unmonitored stairwell
Police and forensics are still examining data
But concede there are currently no leads on the escaped a**ailants