Thieves believed to have escaped into sewers after holding staff and customers in Crédit Agricole branch for two hours
Armed robbers held 25 people hostage at a bank in Naples for two hours on Thursday, before fleeing through a tunnel.
The three thieves entered a branch of Crédit Agricole in the southern Italian city at about 11.30am, taking hostage staff and customers, who were freed by police a couple of hours later.
“Thanks to the swift response … all the hostages were freed shortly after 1:30pm, without serious injuries,” Michele di Bari, prefect of Naples, said in a statement.
Emergency responders smashed windows to enter the bank in piazza Medaglie d’Oro in the city’s Arenella district, by which time the robbers had escaped, reportedly down a hole in the bank’s floor and into the sewers.
