Bank safe vault raided, valuables worth RM500,000 taken

SERI KEMBANGAN: It was a bountiful Hari Raya for burglars who drilled into a bank safe deposit vault and escaped with over RM500,000 worth of jewellery and other valuables.

Taking advantage of the long festive break, the burglars broke into the Public Bank branch here, just like a similar case at Cheras in 1995.

It is learnt that the security alarm did not go off. With no security guards to worry about, the burglars then put their drills and tools to good use at the second floor of the five-storey building. They drilled and hacked a 31cm hole to get to the floor below where the vault was located.

Using a rope, the burglars slid down to the first floor and forced open 92 of the 708 safe deposit boxes, with the use of sharp objects and hammers. The exact date and time of the break-in has yet to be ascertained.