Mask wearing men hold up armored car in Philadelphia

Armed robbers wearing Scream masks and carrying semiautomatic weapons carried out a Halloween heist on an armored truck Thursday in Philadelphia, the FBI said. Investigators said the haul from the robbery outside a Wells Fargo bank was more than $300,000, WPVI-TV reported. At least four men appear to have been involved, escaping in a minivan they abandoned nearby. No arrests had been made late Thursday. Marnan Harner, who was working in a hairdressing salon across the street, said the guard told her at first he thought the robbers were carrying out a Halloween joke, KYW-TV reported. But Edward Hanko, special agent in charge for the FBI, said it was clearly no joke. "The timing of such, the armored car arriving at a certain time, would just indicate that it was preplanned and well planned," Hanko said. "One masked subject ordered the guard to the ground while pointing a gun at him and the other subject went for the money." Investigators said the abandoned van had been reported stolen in August. The robbers apparently escaped in another car.