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California Bank Manager Kidnapped from Home, Forced to Wear Bomb

By Emma G. Gallegos, LAist

California Bank Manager Kidnapped from Home, Forced to Wear Bomb

September 5, 2012 Updated Sep 5, 2012 at 3:47 PM PDT

Police and FBI agents are looking for a pair of men accused of kidnapping a southern California Bank of America manager on Tuesday night and then sending her into a bank branch Wednesday morning with a bomb strapped to her.

The woman showed up with a bomb (or something like it) strapped to her back and instructions to toss cash out the door of a bank branch in East Los Angeles around 8:30 am this morning, according to City News Service. The two suspects fled the scene in a Kia that may be white.

Sheriff's deputies managed to take the supposed bomb off the woman's back and detonate it around 9:45 am Wednesday morning. A local school was put on lockdown.

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