Baghdad, 29 July-(ANA)-Suspected insurgents have robbed a central Baghdad bank of the equivalent of about $7m (£4m) in Iraqi dinars, killing eight guards, reports say.
The guards at the state-owned Rafidain bank in Karrada district were found bound, gagged and shot in a basement, a bank employee told AFP news agency.
Officials said they believed insurgents had carried out the overnight robbery.
Security sources initially believed the bank attackers used weapons equipped with silencers but later reports suggest they used pillows to muffle the sound of the gunshots while killing the guards.
It appears that the robbery was mounted shortly after a large sum of cash was delivered to the bank.
"I have never seen such a brutal crime," an employee at the bank told AFP.
"Now robberies have become like foreign movies - they steal and kill and disappear."
A US military spokesman, Maj David Shoupe, said he could not confirm the attack had been mounted by insurgents. (ANA)
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