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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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A bank robber grabbed a toddler and held the boy at gunpoint while demanding thousands of dollars from a teller, authorities said. The startling scene was captured on surveillance video that shows the little boy staring up at the gun.
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PETER CAVE: It&#39;s perhaps the biggest and most audacious robbery in the UK since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, with more than 20 million pounds, or $50 million, missing after thieves emptied the vaults of a downtown bank owned by Australia&#39;s National
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A hostage who was being forced to withdraw money at her bank managed to tip off a teller to call police, authorities said, before she was found dead at her family home.
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Two men who burst into a bank in a  Paris suburb near Europe&#39;s biggest wholesale food market took four employees and two customers hostage Tuesday, police and the bank said.
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RAIDERS may have escaped with up to Â£27 million after kidnapping the families of two bank executives and forcing the men to open their vaults, it emerged last night.
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British, American and Iraqi authorities were trying last night to secure the freedom of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday.
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A gang who carried out Britain&#39;s biggest-ever cash robbery disguised themselves as police to kidnap a manager at the security store where the money was held and escape with the cash, a court heard Tuesday.
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LONDON  - Bank robbers have fled with several million pounds after two bank employees were taken hostage in Northern Ireland&#39;s capital Belfast, security sources revealed.
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[World News]: London, Dec 22 : Kidnappers stole up to 30 million pounds in Britain&#39;s biggest ever bank robbery in Belfast, it was announced Tuesday.
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A gunman who took four bank employees hostage with an air rifle Monday morning was fatally shot by a SWAT team as he walked out of the bank with his gun drawn, police said. None of the hostages was injured.
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A major police operation is launched in the west end of Glasgow after reports of a bank robbery.
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Police missed a gang of robbers who stole Â£22m from a Belfast bank by a matter of minutes, it has emerged.
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Gunmen in military uniforms raided a Baghdad bank Tuesday, stealing the equivalent of $709,000, police said. The attackers drove up to the Zuwiyah Bank in the Karradah neighborhood in four vehicles, jumped out and fired their weapons into the air, police said.
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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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Police reveal that almost Â£500,000 was stolen by armed robbers who held a County Down family hostage.
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A large four figure cash sum is stolen after a family is held at gunpoint in County Tyrone, say police.