Republic Bank Limited has confirmed bandits have taken less than 200,000 dollars from its Ariapita Avenue Port of Spain branch.

The incident is believed to have occurred over the In­de­pen­dence long week­end.

According to reports when se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers got to work yesterday morning they found that a wall near the vault had been bust­ed.

It is believed the thieves were not able to access the bank’s main vault but they got into a cash bin which contained money.

Police say the thieves got 127,000TTD, 5,000 USD, and 500 canadian dollars.

205 pounds and 427 eu­ros were also taken.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed said yesterday overnight teller tills were tam­pered with and a val­ue of less than $200,000 was stolen.”

The bank said it is pro­vid­ing video footage and oth­er elec­tron­ic se­cu­ri­ty ev­i­dence to as­sist the po­lice in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

ASP An­der­son Pa­ri­man and In­spec­tor Lopez of the Port of Spain CID are lead­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent.