Burglars ransack safe-deposit boxes in German bank heist-

Police said they had not identified the perpetrators or established what was stolen. Emergency workers found an unknown liquid on the doors of the bank but said it did not pose a health risk.Live

Burglars ransack safe-deposit boxes in German bank heist

Police said they had not identified the perpetrators or established what was stolen. Emergency workers found an unknown liquid on the doors of the bank but said it did not pose a health risk.

Police tape in front of Volksbank branch in Stuhr, Lower Saxony
Unidentified burglars broke into 14 safe-deposit boxes in a bank in northern
Burglars ransacked several safe-deposit boxes in a bank in the town of Stuhr in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, police said Saturday.

Police said they have not identified the perpetrators or established what was stolen.

“We can’t say anything about the contents,” a police spokesman told Germany’s DPA news agency. “We don’t know what the bank customers had stored there,” he said.

The bank had 728 safe-deposit boxes in total, 14 of which were broken into, according to police.

“All the other boxes are intact,” the bank was cited by DPA as saying.

Police said the break-in was carried out between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. local time (1100 and 1300 UTC).

According to initial witness reports, three men in blue overalls were seen walking toward a car in front of the bank around midday.

Unknown liquid spotted at crime scene
A police spokesperson told DPA that a bank employee made her way to the bank’s basement after her lunch break, where she noticed a “pungent smell” that made her feel nauseous.

Emergency workers found an unknown liquid on the doors but said it did not pose a health risk.

Two bank employees were treated by emergency services, according to northern German regional public broadcaster NDR.

The break-in comes a little over a month after burglars stole about €30 million from a bank in Gelsenkirchen in western Germany after drilling into its vault.