Bt4m stolen in bank heist
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Four men in a pickup snatched a moneybag with Bt4.1 million in it from a cash transport truck in Sing Buri after shooting a guard, then chased an armoured van at high-speed in an attempt to steal three other bags.
Police are looking for the silver Isuzu D-Max used by the four robbers. Witnesses reported the number on the Bangkok licence plate, but it turned out to belong to a sedan reported stolen recently.
Two guards employed by Progress Gunpai Co were picking up cash from a Kasikornbank branch in In Buri district when two hooded men got out their vehicle and one of them fired at the truck and the two guards with an AK-47 assault rifle.
They picked up one bag containing Bt4 million in Bt1,000 banknotes and Bt100,000 in Bt100 notes.
Thanes Worrayano took one bullet in his right leg and is now receiving hospital treatment, while other guard, Uthen Ou-khongkha, was not shot. He ran from the scene.
Pheerachet Panmaung, the driver of the armoured truck, said he took off and went north on Route 32 towards Nakhon Sawan with the robbers in hot pursuit.
Pheerachet told police that five or six shots were fired at him but the truck’s armour protected him. After being chased for six kilometres, he pulled over at a police box and called out for help, and the robbers fled.
Pol Maj General Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said there could be accomplices, as security camera footage showed another pickup waiting near the bank and following the robbers’ vehicle when it began chasing the money truck.
The robbers and possibly their helpers, with likely knowledge about the time of cash delivery and collection, plus the transport truck’s route, could have tailed the truck, and may have sought to steal all four bags of cash, each containing Bt4.1 million, at the In Buri branch.
The initial investigation found five spent cartridges at the scene and two bullet holes in the transport truck.
