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This is 7 news network,

and we bring you breaking news

of a bank robbery downtown,

where the World First Bank has just been struck

by what is believed to be

the greatest heist in recent years.

Only hours ago, just before the lunch hour rush,

4 men entered the bank building through the main doors,

posing as bank customers.

The accomplices who have yet

to be identified by the police

were heavily armed and managed

to remain undetected by bank security.

Having located the bank manager,

they forced him to relinquish

a server room skeleton key.

Security forces are unwilling to

comment at this point,

but inside sources indicate the manager

may have sustained fatal injury during the robbery.

In this server room, inside what appears to be

a hollow photocopier,

an unknown accomplice had

hidden drilling equipment

as well as several canisters of what sources describe as thermite

a chemical compound commonly

used by elite military units

to break through hard metal surfaces.

The drilling equipment was then used to force the locks of the gate,

blocking the way to the

underground high-security vault area.

Having gained access to the vault area,

the 4 accomplices proceeded to ignite the thermite

in a space directly above the storage vault.

While the robbers emptied the vault

to an unknown amount of cash,

security forces arrived, surrounding the building and

cutting off exits and escape routes.

This is the police. We know you are in there.

At this point, it was believed

that the robbers who held hostages,

several bank customers and officials

would try to initiate negotiation with the authorities.

Instead, they executed what appears to be

a carefully designed escape plan.

Using plastic explosives,

the robbers blew a hole in an interior wall,

creating a concealed escape route via

an adjacent office building

into an unmonitored stairwell.

Police and forensics are still examining data,

but can see that there are currently no leads

on the escaped assailants.