Thieves loot Rs 9 lakh from ATM

Thieves cut an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a private bank near Wazirabad here early on Tuesday and escaped with Rs 9 lakh in cash.

The incident came to light when Devesh Kumar, an executive with an ATM supervising firm, went to the ATM booth to rectify a technical fault.

Kumar found that the vault of the ATM had been cut with a gas cutter and all the cash was missing.

Police said the thieves also destroyed the CCTV cameras installed in the booth.

--IANS

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