英国警方2月27日确认，在2月22日英国东南部肯特郡汤布里奇金库发生的武装抢劫案中，一共有大约5311. 676万英镑的款项被洗劫一空。警方表示一定将犯罪嫌疑人抓获归案。

    据《卫报》27日报道，肯特郡助理警官阿德里安·莱帕德透露，警方抓获了5名被怀疑与此案有关的嫌疑人，不过其中一人已经获得保释。莱帕德表示，目前警方已经掌握了几条重要线索，一定能够将犯罪嫌疑人抓获归案。

    据警方透露，参与上周肯特郡金库抢劫案的6名武装匪徒个个身高马大，而且表现得训练有素。抢劫案发生时正在该金库值班的一位名叫米尼萨的工作人员描述了部分事发经过。他说：“我记得当时我正在为成捆的钞票进行分拣。这时一个人突然闯进来，并用枪指着我和我的同事，逼迫我们高举双手蹲进一个狭小的储物笼中。”曾遭匪徒劫持的该金库经理科林·迪克森事后也表示说“那是他一生中最可怕的一晚”。

    莱帕德表示，警方正在全力追查用于抢劫的白色雷诺货车。在劫案发生后，警方一共接到了1300多个提供线索或帮助的市民电话。警方还发现了被歹徒抛弃的用于装钞票的14个金属笼子。在其附近还同时起获了一辆蓝色货车和一辆叉车，不过警方还不能确定这两辆车是否同本案有关。

    Police said today that more than ?53m was stolen during the raid on a security depot in Tonbridge last week, confirming it as the biggest robbery to have ever taken place in Britain.

    Police said today that more than ?53m was stolen during the raid on a security depot in Tonbridge last week, confirming it as the biggest robbery to have ever taken place in Britain.

    The assistant constable of Kent police, Adrian Leppard, said another five people had been arrested in more than 10 operations in the hunt for the thieves behind last week's robbery.

    Four of the arrests were as a result of armed operations including one arrest at Tankerton, near Whitstable, where police shot the tyres of a blue BMW. Another two men were arrested in Greenwich, south-east London. One of the five has since been released on police bail.

    Kent police said the total sum stolen when armed robbers kidnapped the depot manager and his family and tied up 14 workers at the Securitas site was ?53,116,760.

    Speaking outside police headquarters in Maidstone, Mr Leppard said officers were "following a number of significant lines of inquiry" and that he remained "confident that we will catch those responsible".

    He renewed his appeal for help in finding a white Renault Midlum lorry used in the raid and possibly also to dump the cages which carried the bank notes. Mr Leppard also thanked the public for their help and said a hotline set up after the robbery had received more than 1,300 calls.

    Police want to hear from people who might have seen 14 cages, used to store the new and used bank notes, being dumped in a field in Detling, near Maidstone at around 9.30am on Wednesday.

    Officers reportedly recovered a blue van and a forklift truck close to the spot where the metal cages were abandoned, but police could not confirm that two further vehicles had been seized.