{"id":416,"date":"2011-04-22T19:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T01:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2011-04-22T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T01:57:45","slug":"termites-eat-millions-of-indian-rupees-in-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/22\/termites-eat-millions-of-indian-rupees-in-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Termites eat millions of Indian rupees in bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT was an all you can eat buffet at the bank.<\/p>\n<p>An army of termites munched through 10 million rupees (S$274,000) in currency notes stored in a steel chest at a bank, police in northern India said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110422\/termite-22.jpg\" alt=\"Termites\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bank manager discovered the damage when he opened the reinforced room in an old bank building on Wednesday, police officer Navneet Rana told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s a matter of investigation how termites attacked bundles of currency notes stacked in a steel chest,&#8217; he said. The money was put in the chest in January.<\/p>\n<p>The termites had damaged bank furniture and documents in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The police have registered a case of negligence against bank officials in Barabanki, a town 30km south-west of Lucknow, the Uttar Pradesh state capital. In India, police register a case before opening an investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Photo By China Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT was an all you can eat buffet at the bank. An army of termites munched through 10 million rupees (S$274,000) in currency notes stored in a steel chest at a bank, police in northern India said on Friday. The bank manager discovered the damage when he opened the reinforced room in an old bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}