People in Nepal looted a bank locker that was swept away by floods. People opened the locker and looted the money. Police have detained 29 people in this case.
The bank vault was carried from Rasuwa and the upper catchment areas down the Trishuli River into Dhading. 29 people were arrested while allegedly breaking it open and taking cash from inside.
The vault had been washed away by the floods and carried downstream before reaching Dhading. A joint patrol team of the Armed Police Force and Nepal Police found the suspects at the site as they were allegedly extracting money from the damaged safe.
Authorities recovered Rs 9,268,505 in cash from the group and took the 29 suspects into custody. According to Nepal police spokesperson Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Abi Narayan Kafle, all 29 suspects are in custody at the District Police Office in Dhading, where police are conducting further investigations and initiating legal proceedings.
