Dhaka, Nov. 22 -- Armed men posing as officials from India's central bank have robbed a vehicle transporting 70m rupees ($800,000; £600,000) in the southern state of Karnataka, police say.
A massive operation has been launched to find the men who robbed the van in the heart of Bengaluru city in daylight.
The robbery occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Six men in an SUV stopped a cash transport van on a busy road as it was moving money between bank branches, Bengaluru police commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh told the BBC.
The van was carrying a driver, a cash custodian and two armed security guards.
Singh says the robbers told the people in the van that they were officials from the Reserve Bank of India and needed to verify if they had ...