Hostage-Takers Steal Millions from N.Irish Bank
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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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IT took thieves 2 1/2 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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BELFAST - Police have confirmed that more than Â£22 million ($60 million) was stolen from the National Australia Bank-owned Northern Bank in Belfast and that they are investigating the possibility the theft was carried out by paramilitaries.
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A gang of thieves is likely celebrating their dubious distinction today, after making off with a record $48 million Cdn. from a bank in Belfast.
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A spectacular bank robbery in Belfast last month, in which thieves netted nearly $50 million, has cast a pall on Northern Ireland peace negotiations and thrown Catholic-Protestant political relations in ...
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Police were on Tuesday night hunting for a gang who stole more than Â£20m in what is thought to be the biggest bank raid in British history.
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The Irish Republican Army committed last month's massive robbery of a Belfast bank, the Northern Ireland police commander bluntly announced Friday in a move that complicated the province's peacemaking efforts.
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A gunman took at least two people hostage Wednesday during an attempted bank robbery outside Chicago, authorities said.
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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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A gang has escaped with up to Â£30million after clearing the vaults of a Belfast bank. It&#39;s believed to be the second biggest robbery ever in the UK, and the fourth biggest in the world.
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BELFAST -- Senior members of Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland's largest Irish nationalist party, approved a huge bank robbery in Belfast carried out by IRA guerrillas, the province's cease-fire watchdog said yesterday.
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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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Police were told about men acting suspiciously outside the Northern Bank in Belfast during the robbery in which a gang got away with Â£22m (â¬31.4m), it was revealed today.
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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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ONE of the biggest heists in history has left the National Australia Bank with a $50 million headache. In a Hollywood-style raid, the 20-strong Irish gang robbed the NAB-owned Northern Bank in Belfast as thousands shopped and sang Christmas carols nearby.
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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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As much as Â£20m may have been stolen in a raid at a bank's headquarters in Belfast, police say.