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Two Seattle bank robberies occur within minutes of each other

Sep 18, 2015, 3:27 PM | Updated: 4:09 pm

Two Seattle bank robberies occur within minutes of each other Friday afternoon. (Seattle Police Dep...

Two Seattle bank robberies occur within minutes of each other Friday afternoon. (Seattle Police Department)

(Seattle Police Department)

Two separate bank robberies have Seattle police scrambling to find the suspects.

Officers were investigating a robbery in the 800 block of 3rd Avenue just before 3 p.m. when another robbery was reported in the 4300 block of SW Admiral Way.

No injuries were reported. Which banks were involved is not yet known.

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