Police have arrested a gang of six men who killed two customers and a taxi driver when they robbed a bank in Jiangxi's Nanchang city in November, official media reported yesterday.
Xinhua identified the gang leader as Hua Min.
It said Hua was an ex-convict who had spent two years in prison for theft during the early 1990s.
He was alleged to have assembled a gang of former classmates and cellmates to help him rob the Agriculture Bank in Nanchang city's Hongcheng market on November 11.
The six shot dead one customer when they walked into the bank and seriously injured another who later died in hospital. Police also found the body of a taxi driver when they found the getaway car used by the robbers, who fled with more than 500,000 yuan (HK$470,000).
The agency said police also found two hunting rifles and about 30 rounds of ammunition when they arrested the six men. However, it did not say if police had recovered the money.