Seven arrested in India after police crack $800,000 bank heist

Armed men posing as bank officials robbed a van transporting cash between bank branches in Bengaluru city.

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On Saturday police in the southern city of Bengaluru said they had cracked the case and recovered 57.6m rupees of the money stolen three days earlier.

Bengaluru police commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh told the BBC on Sunday that a seventh man had been arrested in Bengaluru, adding it would take time to determine the amount of money "in his possession."

Singh said the police are still looking "for two or, maybe, three more," suspects.

Those arrested include Gopal Prasad, an employee of cash transport company CMS, J Xavier, a former CMS worker, and Annappa Naik, a local police constable.