Armed man takes 12 hostages at Georgia bank, demands two million dollars and a helicopter

LAST UPDATE: All hostages held at the Bank of Georgia in Kutaisi have been released, local media reported.

Earlier it became known that special forces entered the bank building, after which shots were fired.
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An armed man took a dozen hostages at a bank in Georgia's second-largest city of Kutaisi on Tuesday, demanding a large sum of money, officials said.

The Black Sea nation's interior ministry said the suspect was holed up at a Bank of Georgia branch in the town of around 150,000 people in central Georgia.

“For the moment, there are 12 hostages in the building,“ it added in a statement.

The ministry said police had deployed to the bank to resolve the crisis.

An investigation was opened into a “terrorist act, hostage-taking and illegal possession of firearms”, the ministry added.

A female hostage is heard saying: “His demand is two million dollars within three hours. He has a hand grenade and there are bombs which will explode.”
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2. An armed man who broke into the Bank of Georgia in Kutaisi removed the pin from a grenade and threatened to blow it up.

It is reported that the bank hijacker does not give up his demands and promises to reach the end.

“I have nothing to lose, I will not be in prison for 25 or 30 years,” the attacker said during a live broadcast on social networks.

It is also known that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Vakhtang Gomelauri, is at the scene.
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