RAID ON BANK
Shots Keep Staff Back fN 7 P A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, December 28. Gunmen using a car as a battering ram. burst into a bank yesterday and snatched at least £BOOO after keeping the bank staff pinned down by firing warning shots. The raid took place at Barclays Bank at Kernel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, shortly before the branch opened for the day. The staff were checking con tents of night-safe wallets containing the Christmas takings of local traders when the raiders struck and grabbed the entire amount. They left their grey Jaguar car wedged in the stonework of the bank’s double doors, and escaped in another Jaguar.
Munitions Blast.—An explosion erupted yesterday at a munitions plant which, makes anti-personnel mines for use in Vietnam, and State police said one person was killed and 22 injured.— Hanover (Massachusetts). December 28.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31564, 29 December 1967, Page 7
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