Just around the time people appeared in ‘Money Heist’ masks and red jumpsuits, held placards to say “We only rob banks...” in Hyderabad, a real heist, sans the costume but using a red domestic LPG cylinder to cut open a safe, took place in Nizamabad, about 200 km from here.
The robbery at Telangana Grameena Bank branch at Bussapur village of Mendora mandal in Nizamabad district, officials believe, took place around Sunday night. The scene was discovered by officials only on Monday, when they opened the bank for business. Pictures of the scenes at the strong room showed a safe vertically cut open from its locked side, debris of a damaged wall, a crow bar and a gas cylinder used in the robbery.
It was suspected that the robbers arrived in a multi-utility vehicle, parked it near the BSNL office adjacent the bank and forced open the bank shutters and grills. They had also damaged the bank’s CCTV equipment before breaking in.
