Hyderabad, September 16: Suspected Maoists today looted a branch of State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) in Khammam district in broad daylight and decamped with about Rs 10 lakh, police said.
About 40 people stormed into the SBH’s Satyanarayanpuram branch in Cherla mandal of the district at about
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We suspect that the robbers were Maoists who came from neighbouring Chhattisgarh, he said.
A group of nine Maoists barged into the bank and threatened the cashier to hand over the cash even as a group of another 30 waited outside the bank, the officer said.
It was exactly not known how they fled away, he said and added that the branch is located near a forest area bordering Chhattisgarh.
-PTI