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Gangsters destroy bank and themself

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ORIGINAL SUBMISSION:

In Dinant two men robbed a bank last night using dynamite. One of the men was killed when part of the building collapsed. The other man is misssing. Police think that his body may be buried beneath the rubble as well.

The two gangsters went to work about 3 am Saturday morning. Belga

It looks like they wanted to blow up an automated teller machine but the force of the dynamite caused much of the building to collapse. One of the men was killed. The police are still searching the wreckage to see if there is a second body as well.

The police think that the second gangster was also trapped in the wreckage. "The police have requested a sniffer dog to try to find the second victim," says Richard Fournaux, mayor of Dinant.

A delousing squad is also at the scene to make sure there is no dynamite left that did not explode. The bank safe and the money machine were undamaged by the blast.

Submitted on 09/26/2009

Submitted by: Bart Vanhoorne
Reference: http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/090926_gangsters%2BDinant 26/09/2009

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