San Salvador.- Salvadoran police on Tuesday arrested two young men whom they caught digging a tunnel from a private home to two bank branches in this capital’s Layco district.
Police spokesman Carlos Rugamas told EFE that Miguel Angel Crispin, 22, and Rafael Alberto Cerna, 16, were arrested soon after a security guard alerted the bank to a hole in the street from which light was coming.
Some two dozen members of the police’s rapid-reaction squad rushed to the scene. and some climbed into the hole, which took them to a tunnel about 200 meters (655 feet) long that extended out from a house apparently rented for the purpose.
Rugamas said the tunnel had been dug to within five meters (16 feet) of a Banco Agricola branch, and an arm pointed toward a Scotiabank office.
Police first showed the press the two would-be bank robbers in the buff, but later put shorts on them.
