Hostage bank robbers escape with millions
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Bank robbers have escaped with several million pounds after employees were taken hostage at their homes, security sources have said.
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A prominent criminal defense attorney was shot and kidnapped from his home by four people, then escaped when the suspects took him to a bank to withdraw money.
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Would-be robbers took about 30 people hostage inside a Venezuelan bank Monday after police arrived outside, the country's top emergency official said.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan bank robbers carrying pistols and a hand-grenade sped away on Tuesday from a police siege in an ambulance with a handful of hostages after a deal that freed tens of other captives in a two-day standoff.
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The family of a bank official who were being held hostage in north Belfast manage to escape.
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Armed robbers escape by arrangement with police after two-day siege, but then turn themselves in
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A gang has escaped with up to Â£30million after clearing the vaults of a Belfast bank. It&#39;s believed to be the second biggest robbery ever in the UK, and the fourth biggest in the world.
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AS MUCH as Â£30 million was believed missing today after a gang raided the headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, in what is believed to be the biggest bank heist in Northern Ireland history.
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Police were on Tuesday night hunting for a gang who stole more than Â£20m in what is thought to be the biggest bank raid in British history.
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BELFAST -- The gang that held two bankers&#39; families hostage as part of an audacious Belfast robbery posed as police officers and walked into their victims&#39; homes, neighbours said yesterday as more details emerged of one of the biggest cash thefts in
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed Venezuelan bank robbers sped away from a police siege on Tuesday in an ambulance with a handful of hostages after a deal that freed dozens of other captives in a two-day standoff.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland Police in Northern Ireland say a gang has staged the biggest bank robbery in the province&#39;s history.
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Would-be robbers took eight people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen were arrested, police said.
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More than 22 million pounds (31.48 million euros, 42.1 million dollars) was taken in this week's dramatic robbery at the Northern Bank in Belfast, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.
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The manager of the security depot raided in the largest cash robbery ever carried out in Britain yesterday told a court of his terror as he was kidnapped by men pretending to be police officers.
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A gang held the families of two  Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before  stealing more than 20 million pounds ($39 million) in one of  Britain's biggest ever robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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AN armed gang made up of former terrorists stole up to Â£40million in one of the country&#39;s biggest ever bank raids. Two managers were taken at gunpoint from their homes and forced to open the vaults of the Northern Bank in Belfast.