<p>A 14-year-old Russian girl in the Urals city of Izhevsk staged an armed bank robbery as part of a plan to run away from home and commit suicide, investigators said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The girl, "wearing a mask and armed with a knife, carried out a raid on one of the city's commercial banks with the aim of stealing money but was stopped by the bank's security guards," the Investigative Committee said.<br /><br />The girl had told investigators she carried out the robbery "with the aim of escaping her parents' excessive control," the committee said on its website.<br /><br />"The girl wanted to use the money to leave the city and end her life by suicide," investigators said.<br /><br />Komsomolskaya Pravda published security video footage of the girl wearing a white mask and hooded top waving a knife at female bank staff before being grabbed by guards.<br /><br />She shouted that she wanted 200,000 rubles (about USD 6,200) in cash, local investigator Rodion Zainullin told the newspaper.<br /><br />The girl was an A-grade student but was unhappy living with her divorced mother and her stepfather, the newspaper reported.<br /><br />She has been freed after signing promises not to leave the city and to behave properly, investigators said.<br /><br />In Russia minors aged between 14 and 16 can be jailed in youth prisons if they commit a serious crime even if it is a first offence.</p>
<p>A 14-year-old Russian girl in the Urals city of Izhevsk staged an armed bank robbery as part of a plan to run away from home and commit suicide, investigators said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The girl, "wearing a mask and armed with a knife, carried out a raid on one of the city's commercial banks with the aim of stealing money but was stopped by the bank's security guards," the Investigative Committee said.<br /><br />The girl had told investigators she carried out the robbery "with the aim of escaping her parents' excessive control," the committee said on its website.<br /><br />"The girl wanted to use the money to leave the city and end her life by suicide," investigators said.<br /><br />Komsomolskaya Pravda published security video footage of the girl wearing a white mask and hooded top waving a knife at female bank staff before being grabbed by guards.<br /><br />She shouted that she wanted 200,000 rubles (about USD 6,200) in cash, local investigator Rodion Zainullin told the newspaper.<br /><br />The girl was an A-grade student but was unhappy living with her divorced mother and her stepfather, the newspaper reported.<br /><br />She has been freed after signing promises not to leave the city and to behave properly, investigators said.<br /><br />In Russia minors aged between 14 and 16 can be jailed in youth prisons if they commit a serious crime even if it is a first offence.</p>