Attempt made to loot Agrani Bank in capital

A heist attempt was made at a branch of state-run Agrani Bank in the capital during the Eid holidays, said police on Sunday.
Visiting the two-storey Nababganj branch of the bank in Lalbagh on Sunday, The Daily Star found a rectangular hole, about 11 inches wide and 15 inches high, on the wall of the bank vault.
Kazi Matiar Rahman, second officer of the branch, was the first to discover the hole when he went to work after the three-day Eid holidays on Sunday.
Miscreants had entered the building through an iron-bar enforced ventilation duct on the first floor and then climbed down the stairs and broke a portion of a wall to get inside the vault. But they could not open the cash locker inside, said Nurul Muttakin, officer-in-charge (OC) of Lalbagh Police Station.
The Agrani Bank official confirmed that nothing had been stolen except for a monitor from the first floor. A peon was supposed to guard the branch during the holidays but he could not as he was sick.
The bank does not have any armed security personnel or close-circuit cameras, said the OC.