BNI Bekasi robbed

BNI Bekasi robbed

JAKARTA (JP): Six men robbed the Bekasi branch of Bank Negara
Indonesia early Wednesday morning and took away a safe containing
Rp 100 million in cash and important documents.

Bekasi Police chief of detectives Adj. Comr. Wahyu Handoyo
said the robbers arrived at the bank on Jl. Sudirman, Bekasi
Barat, at about 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

"The robbers disarmed the security guard, Ismail, tied his
hands up with wire, broke into the bank and escaped with the
bank's safe containing Rp 100 million and important documents,"
Wahyu told reporters.

According to Ismail's testimony, Wahyu said, Ismail had been
on duty early Wednesday morning, when suddenly three men
approached him and held him up at gunpoint. They tied him up and
threw a trash can over his head so that he could not see
anything.

The three other men, Wahyu said, held up at gunpoint a man
identified as Marzuki, the owner of a shop nearby the bank.

The robbers used a bolt-cutter to cut through the huge chains
that secured the entrance to the bank and took off with the
bank's safe, which had not been attached to the wall.

"We are still investigating the case," Wahyu said. (ylt)