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Gardai Arrest Bank Robbery Suspects
It has emerged that three men are now in custody in the Irish republic over an armed robbery at a bank in Northern Ireland.
Two gunmen entered a bank in Belleek, Co Fermanagh, on Monday and told customers to lie on the floor while they made staff fill bags with cash.
They escaped in a car which was later found burnt out a mile across the border in the Republic of Ireland.
The men were arrested in the Republic and are being held in Letterkenny, Ballyshannon and Dublin.
See: Border Bandits Hunted
(BMCC/GK)
Two gunmen entered a bank in Belleek, Co Fermanagh, on Monday and told customers to lie on the floor while they made staff fill bags with cash.
They escaped in a car which was later found burnt out a mile across the border in the Republic of Ireland.
The men were arrested in the Republic and are being held in Letterkenny, Ballyshannon and Dublin.
See: Border Bandits Hunted
(BMCC/GK)
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