Dar police kill 3 armed robbers in bank heist.

                                                Policeman, guard, bank officer killed

Dar es Salaam Special Zone Commander Simon Sirro.

Three armed robbers are believed to have been killed by police yesterday after storming an Access Bank Mbagala branch in Temeke district, Dar es Salaam region, in a robbery involving an unspecified amount of money.

 

Scanty information that trickled in late yesterday evening stated that a police officer was also killed as they engaged the heavily armed robbers.  

 

Eye witnesses who volunteered information on condition of anonymity, including community police officers in the area, said six armed robbers arrived at the bank on three motorcycles before they shot the bank’s security guards.

 

They then stormed the bank, demanding to know where the branch manager was. But after they missed him they entered a room where they shot some customers and bank staff before making away with a bag containing  an unspecified amount of money.

 

According to the witnesses, several people could have been injured as the robbers shot at people in the bank indiscriminately.

 

The Guardian could not independently verify the authenticity of the information.  However, Dar es Salaam Special Zone Commander Simon Sirro asked this newspaper to give him time to work on the matter and provide information, but as the paper went to bed he had not phoned back.