Imphal, Oct 17: An unidentified lone gunman looted Rs 6 lakh from a public sector bank in Manipur’s Kakching district on Wednesday.

According to police, the armed man stormed into a UCO Bank branch in Kakching bazar and looted the bank.

The bank officials said the masked man forced the unarmed bank guard and other officials to open the lockers and cash counters to loot the money. He then fled with the cash.

A sum of Rs 18.85 crore was looted from a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch in Ukhrul town on November 30, last year. A sum of Rs 1 crore was looted by an armed gang from an Axis Bank branch in Churachandpur district in July, last year.

In another development, the Churachandpur district authority has clamped curfew for three days from Wednesday.

An official said that District Magistrate Dharun Kumar S, apprehending violence, imposed the curfew under Section 163 of BNSS,2023 to prevent any untoward incident. 

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