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Gunman charged for robbing bank in Macedonia

Xinhua, October 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Macedonian police have detained and charged a 43-year-old man identified as A.M. for allegedly robbing a bank of 378,000 denars (around 7,000 U.S. dollars) here, local police said on Friday.

A.M. purportedly committed the robbery Thursday in the afternoon, when he entered a Stopanska Bank branch in the Gjorche Petrov area, threatening bank clerks at gunpoint and managing to make off with the money.

After fleeing the bank in a Citroen car, the alleged burglar was stoped by the Macedonian special police unit on Partizanski Odredi boulevard and started to fire on police officers.

The police responded to the assault, shooting into the Citroen car in order to intercept it and injuring the man, who was then arrested and hospitalized. Endit