Some men allegedly wearing police uniforms early hours on Tuesday stormed Ikirun micro-finance bank and burgled its Automated Teller Machine.

Vanguard reports that the gun-wielding men arrived at the bank around few minutes past 2am and easily accessed the security post because of the uniform on them.

According to sources in the town, the criminals tied the night guards in the bank and proceeded to the ATM which was forcefully burgled.

It was learnt that one of the night guards managed to escape from the scene and ran to town to inform police of the incident.

Osun police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola said the Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode had visited the scene and deployed investigators to ensure the perpetrators are brought to book.