Two bank robbers shot to death

Two bank robbers shot to death

SEMARANG, Central Java: Two of seven people suspected of
robbing a city branch of Bank Panin here on Sunday, were shot to
death for resisting police arrest.

Sr. Comr. Halba R. Nugroho, chief of the Semarang Municipal
Police, said here on Monday the two, identified as Lasmono from
Kendal and Legiyo from Mijen, were shot for trying to escape when
the police were apprehending them while the five others were
already under arrest.

He said that the police seized cash totaling Rp 27,500,000, a
Mitsubishi minibus, two machetes and several knives from the
suspects.

The robbers took Rp 50 million from the bank's safe and fled
the scene on Sunday after tying up the bank's security guard.

Halba said local police were able to arrest the suspects just
ten hours following the robbery after the police examined a pair
of sandals left at the bank and some pieces of earth on them at
the forensic laboratory in the provincial police headquarters.
The results proved that the earth found on the sandals was the
same to that in Mijen, Legiyo's home village. -- Antara