Police in central China's Henan Province on Wednesday said a bank clerk is responsible for atriple ax murder-bank robbery which took place Monday night in Ruyang County of the province.
One security guard and two tellers were chopped to death with an ax and 212,176 yuan (US$25,563) in cash was stolen from the Ruyang branch of the Agricultural Bank of China Monday night, police said.
Their investigation revealed that Wu Dongfeng, a clerk of the bank, killed the two tellers and guard with ax and cut the vault door open with a welding torch. He fled the scene in a borrowed minibus and buried the cash in two separate locations.
The police uncovered the welding tools that Wu discarded and the minibus in a suburb, and Wu was later apprehended and taken into custody. All of the stolen money has been recovered, police said.
( November 15,2001)
