BANDARBAN, Apr 3: No money was looted from the Sonali Bank branch in Ruma Upazila of Bandarban and all the money in the vault of the bank is intact.
Shahnewaz Khaled, Special Superintendent of Police of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Chattogram region, said on Wednesday.
He said two teams from CIDs Chattogram and Coxs 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 two keys of the vault are needed to be used at once to open the vault. Probably the armed men could not open the vault for this reason.
The members of new militant group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) tried to loot the Sonali Bank branch in Ruma on Tuesday night.
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.
Ruma Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Muhammad Shahjahan said that the "hilltop-based armed terrorists" looted the banks money and weapons and abducted the bank manager.