Armed gang mount fierce assault | Brazil bank heist

An armed gang has stormed the southern city of Christina it robbed a bank it's set off explosives it took hostages before escaping with an undisclosed amount of money the whole operation lasted 2:00 hours and this is how it unfolded explosions were first reported just after midnight local time footage on social media shows men firing weapons as they entered the city in a convoy of vehicles we're told the Banco do Brasil was then raided and a tunnel leading into the city was set on fire and the police headquarters has attacked this footage 

on social media shows the gas away into fleets of cars and we can assume that the gang didn't mean to do this this footage posted on Twitter shows residents picking up money in the streets which the guy get left behind while police said they detained for people ready and if they took $150000 none of them were linked to the robbery itself they just saw this happening on the streets well the mayor of the city is called this a major assaults this is messages. Welcome welcome visitors hello I'm here at city hall after having lived through a true north of terror, unfortunately, we had a police officer who was injured and the security guard who was also hurt by the police carried out their role very well now the mayor's office is asking for everyone to go back to their workplaces let's let the police do their job. We suppose it. 

Now, these pictures show the aftermath this truck was destroyed by fire it apparently being used by the gang and he has a police officer of said deactivating explosives left on the street but told 30 robbers were involved in this operation speak to Camilla Malta lover this missile Paulo committed it's just an incredible extraordinary story is there any parallel in Brazil if you have a node of an attack like this. Well, Brazil records around 100 bank robberies or attempts each year once which is why a lot but we're not used to seeing something like this it is not it's although it's not common it's not completely unique because we know that sectors of organized crime groups here in Brazil are specializing bank robberies and they've been targeting for years now small cities maybe because they think it's easier to fleas security and surveillance costs for bank 

Branches here in Brazil around 1000000000 pounds a year and actually the biggest robbery and that history offers it all happened not long ago in 2005 so 15 years ago when criminals actually dug a tunnel to get access to a central bank wallet to the city of Philadelphia is in the northeastern part of Brazil and they took with them 20000000. Sounds like 3 tons of paper money with them so big story Brazil turned into a movie even. And for those reasons presumably, this bank would have been protected how do we know how this gang managed to get through security. Well, we don't know authorities don't know actually the state governor in a statement early today said that they had no idea that this was coming even though criminals most likely war for weeks now planning the robbery people think that they are from out of state so they moved into the city to plan better what they were going to do but authorities had no idea that this was coming up so that's why the state governor is asking for help from federal authorities to try to track the criminals because we don't know actually where they fly to and actually try to get some of the money back Camilla thank you very much indeed miss Camilla's talking this purchasing that's money on the streets people picked up $150000 which begs the question how much of the gang get away with that's how much they dropped on the street as they were fleeing.