Gardaí are continuing to investigate a so-called 'tiger' kidnapping which occured in Dublin yesterday.
An armed gang escaped with €100,000 after holding a cash-in-transit worker’s terrified mother and nine-year-old niece hostage.
The men forced their way into the employee’s home in Bath Avenue, Irishtown, Dublin, in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The family members were taken away and the worker was forced to go to the Bank of Ireland in O’Connell Street to get cash from a security van making a delivery at around 11.30am.
He was ordered to travel to Drumcondra where he had to leave the money in a white Renault van at the Skylon Hotel.
The mother, in her late 60s, and niece were driven around in a stolen silver Toyota Verso.
They were later freed unharmed in Shankill, south Co Dublin, about 12.30pm and the worker went to Bray Garda Station approximately an hour and a half later.
Both vehicles used in the kidnapping were recovered by gardaí.
Gardaí have appealed for anyone who may have seen A van, registration number 98D29588, stolen in the Dublin area last month, or people carrier, registration number 05KE6457, to contact them.
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