Armed gang hold up Derry bank

Police in Derry were yesterday searching for an armed gang which held up staff at a bank on the outskirts of the city shortly…

Police in Derry were yesterday searching for an armed gang which held up staff at a bank on the outskirts of the city shortly after lunchtime. Three masked men, two of them armed with sawn-off shotguns, held staff and customers at gunpoint in the Glenshane Road branch of the Northern Bank before escaping with an undisclosed sum of money.

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