Thieves drill into vault of bank over Christmas
Bangkok Post
|January 01, 2026
Thieves used the quiet Christmas period to drill their way into the vault of a German retail bank and make off with at least €10 million (371 million baht) worth of money and valuables from customers’ deposit boxes, police said on Tuesday.
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The perpetrators drilled through a thick concrete wall at a branch of Sparkasse bank in the western city of Gelsenkirchen and then broke into several thousand safe deposit boxes and stole a sum estimated in the double-digit millions of euros, the police said in a statement.
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