- Using toy guns, a 12-
year-old boy and his 13-year-old accomplice
tried to rob a bank in Israel but fled without
any cash after apparently losing their nerve,
police said on Thursday.
Security camera footage showed the boys,
wearing hooded sweatshirts, entering the bank
in Rishon Lezion, a suburb of Tel Aviv on
Wednesday. One had a schoolbag on his back
and what appeared to be a rifle in his hand.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said both
were carrying fake M-16 assault rifles and that
they shouted "this is a holdup".
"They were toy guns but they looked real. The
people in the bank were scared, but then the
suspects ran out without taking any money," he
said, adding that police were able to identify
the pair from the security footage and later
arrested them.
(Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Jeffre