Robbers bid to rob gold loan bank, thwarted

Four people barged into a bank here on Monday and assaulted the staff and a customer in a failed attempt to commit a robbery. The police have registered a case for attempting a robbery in the gold loan branch of a bank here.

The accused reached the bank early in the morning on bikes, said branch employee Harpreet Singh. Bank employees said two of the accused beat them up and a female customer at gunpoint. After some time, two more persons came and all of them tried to rob the bank, the employees said.