Bandits in Sweden pull off daring multimillion-dollar heist with bombs, choppers & Bond-film flairIn a scene that could have been lifted from a James Bond flick, a gang of heavily armed thieves used explosives and a stolen helicopter to pull off a spectacular multimillion-dollar heist in Sweden.
Bandits landed their chopper on the roof of a Stockholm cash depot early Wednesday morning and used their explosives to break in.
"What we know is that they forced down some kind of wall to get in," a police spokesman said.
"We don't want to comment on how they did it."
Witnesses heard a number of explosions as the gang moved through the building with ninja-like precision.
About 15 minutes later, they were back on the roof with bags of money and made a quick getaway in the waiting chopper.
Police had tried to stop the robbers - but were foiled before the drama even started.
The crooks had left spikes on the roads near the bank to puncture cops' tires and planted explosives at the police heliport to prevent them from taking off.
"I've never experienced anything like it," Kjell Lindgren, a police spokesman, said of the elaborate robbery, which reportedly netted the crooks tens of millions in cash.
The cash depot, owned by Britain-based G4S, stores money that is transported to banks, ATMs and other businesses in Sweden.
An abandoned helicopter was discovered hours after the robbery in a park 15 miles from the bank.
Cops say the chopper, a Bell 206 Jet Ranger, was stolen the night before the heist.
One person was taken in for questioning Wednesday afternoon, CNN reported.
Police would not disclose the individual's role in the crime.
There were 21 staff members inside the building during the heist, but no one was injured, police said.
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