German police are looking for a group of men who attempted to rob a Berlin bank in broad daylight Tuesday, August 4, the second such attempt in a few days in the German capital. Shots were fired after the men tried to force their cars into the entrance to a bank branch in Wilmersdorf, an upscale neighborhood in west Berlin, around 9:30 a.m., said local police on Twitter.
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The criminals then set fire to their vehicle before fleeing, according to the police who did not specify if they had managed to rob the bank. A security guard who tried to intervene was injured and taken to hospital, police said.
This bank had another incident in mid-June, in which the thieves fled with around half a million euros after robbing a cash transporter. Tuesday's attempted robbery also came just five days after a similar attack in the district of Neukölln, south of Berlin.
Twelve people were slightly injured when the thieves stormed a bank branch and sprayed pepper spray into the air, before finally running away empty-handed. Police said they were investigating possible links between the three incidents.