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Police in E China hunting for two robbers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-07-06 13:15
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NANJING - Police in East China's Nanjing city are pursuing two runaway suspects who allegedly robbed a woman of a huge amount of money, local police said Wednesday.
The robbery happened at about 9 am outside a branch of China Merchants Bank in Gulou district in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province.
The female citizen, whose identity was not disclosed, was tailed and robbed by the two suspects after she withdrew 500,000 yuan ($77,000) in cash from the bank, according to the police.
The two suspects threw away the bag with the money and fled after the female and other citizens staged an immediate chasing.