US$750,000 stolen in India rail heist
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A GANG of robbers cut a hole in the roof of a train travelling through southern India and stole more than US$750,000 in cash, police said yesterday.
The daring heist occurred somewhere along the more than 300-kilometer long journey, but the missing loot was only discovered hours after the express train arrived in the city of Chennai.
The train’s mail carriage was carrying 3.4 billion rupees (US$51 million) belonging to India’s central bank and was being escorted by armed police seated in the next compartment.
Police said yesterday that about six to eight robbers made a four-foot square hole in the carriage roof using a cutting torch before escaping undetected with some of the cash.
Police said the robbers may have jumped off the train roof and were combing the tracks along the route in search of any of the missing notes.
“They created a manhole and then they sneaked one after the other and lifted the bundles to the roof before taking them away,” inspector general of police M Ramasubramani said.
Another police officer was quoted in The Hindu newspaper as saying the gang members might have hidden themselves in the carriage before it was locked for the journey on Monday night, before escaping through the roof.
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