Sonali Bank vault money is found intact in Ruma: CID

The entire amount of money at the vault of Sonali Bank branch in Ruma Upazila of Bandarban has been found intact, say detectives.

Shahnewaz Khaled, special superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Chattogram region, confirmed the matter on Wednesday evening, a day after a gang of robbers forcefully entered the bank and tried to open the vault.

He said two teams from CID’s Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar units have collected different evidences from the spot. Later, they counted all the money in the vault of the bank and found that no money was looted from the vault of the bank.

He said the two keys of the vault need to be used at once to open the vault. Probably the armed men could not open the vault for this reason.

Earlier, the armed robbers abducted the branch manager and took the keys of the vault from him.

The incident occurred during Taraweeh prayers. The robbers looted 14 weapons from the Ansar members guarding the bank and allegedly abducted the bank manager, Nizam Uddin, from the mosque on the bank premises.