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Police rescues suspected bank robber from tunnel near Vatican

Police believe an Italian guy who was rescued from a collapsed tunnel close to the Vatican may have been trying to tunnel into a bank.

After firefighters spent eight hours pulling him out from beneath a road, he is now recovering in a hospital.

However, given that he and another guy were both detained by police for causing damage to public property, he may now need to save himself from even more trouble.

Officers believe he may have been part of a gang trying to break into a bank.

Two other men were arrested for “resisting a public official” after trying to escape from the site, Rai News reports.

Three of the four men managed to escape before the tunnel collapsed, leaving the final man trapped six meters below.

“We are still investigating, we do not exclude that they are thieves, it is one of the theories,” a police spokesman told the AFP news agency.

The tunnel, which began in an empty, newly-rented shop, was in an area close to two banks.

Local media believe the motive to be clear, noting that the tunnel was found near a bank shortly before the 15 August long weekend, when much of the city empties.

“The hole gang,” read the headline in the Corriere della Sera daily.

Michele, a resident who lives in the same building, said residents had no idea what was going on, adding: “We all thought that the people there were renovating the place.”

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