In bank robbery, N. Ireland thieves steal $39m
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BELFAST -- In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said yesterday.
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BELFAST -- Police raided properties yesterday in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of $42.5 million stolen this week from a bank's underground vault.
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The Australian owner of the Northern Bank today announced it will have to bear the cost - at least Â£27 million and possibly up to Â£40 million - of the world&#39;s biggest peacetime bank robbery.
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Police were on Tuesday night hunting a gang that stole an estimated Â£20m in one of the UK&#39;s biggest robberies. The money was taken from the headquarters of Northern Bank, close to Belfast City Hall, on Monday evening.
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A GANG of robbers have stolen millions of pounds from a bank in the centre of Belfast, police said. Raiders targeted the vault in Wellington Street after holding two senior bank officials hostage in their own homes.
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The robbers who raided a bank in one of Northern Ireland's biggest heists got away with 20 million pounds (38.60 million US), and not up to 30 million pounds as earlier reported, the parent company said.
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A substantial amount of money is stolen from a Northern Bank branch in the centre of Belfast.
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BELFAST - The robbers who pulled off Northern Ireland&#39;s biggest bank robbery dressed as police officers to get into the home of a banker, taking his wife hostage.
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Police investigating this week's 22 million pound (&#36;42 million) bank robbery in Northern Ireland have carried out raids on commercial and residential properties.
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IT took thieves 2Â½ hours to haul the sackloads of banknotes from the vault to a semi-trailer parked behind the Northern Bank&#39;s Belfast headquarters.
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The massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland may have been carried out by paramilitary group the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to provide a &quot;pension fund&quot; for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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A gang held the families of two Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before stealing about 20 million pounds (&#36;39 million) in one of Britain's biggest robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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ARMED robbers escaped with Â£20 million in cash in the worldâs biggest peacetime bank robbery after looting the vaults of the Northern Bank in Belfast in a 24-hour hostage drama.
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The Australian owners of a Northern Ireland bank that was robbed of a staggering 20 million pounds (28.9 million euros, 38.6 million dollars) said it would bear the burden of the loss.
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Police reveal that almost Â£500,000 was stolen by armed robbers who held a County Down family hostage.
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As much as Â£20m may have been stolen in a raid at a bank's headquarters in Belfast, police say.
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The Northern Bank is to move 40 employees from its Belfast HQ following last month's Â£26m robbery.