Banglamung Police were called in to investigate the theft of money from a donation box at Banglamung Hospital. Police found that the large clear plastic donation box located next to a ground floor elevator had been forced open and all the money removed. A hospital porter had called the police after receiving a report from a nurse who was leaving the hospital at the end of her shift.
They noticed a CCTV camera pointing directly at the box but when they went to the security control room on the third floor they found that the CCTV camera had not been working at the tine of the theft.
The box was set up by the lift at 8am and stored aware at 6pm every day. The purpose for the box was to collect donations to buy new medical equipment for the poorly funded Government hospital. It is not known how much money was in the box.
Police collected latent fingerprints at the scene and will compare with criminal records when they get back to the station.
