Robbers blew up an ATM kiosk and made away with Rs 30 lakh in money.
Pune:
Robbers blew up an ATM kiosk at Pimpri Chinchwad in Pune and made away with Rs 30 lakh in money. Experiences counsel that the robbers left behind about Rs 10 lakh as they didn’t have time to gather it.
The incident, which happened on July 18, has set off alarm bells inside the state police after investigation pointed to the potential use of an Improvised Explosive Gadget (IED) within the blast. Maharashtra Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad has now joined the probe.
Visuals from the spot, situated within the Chakan space, present the ATM machine cut up open. Police have cordoned off the realm and in addition taken a sniffer canine to search out additional clues.
Champak Ippar, Deputy Commissioner of Police for Pimpri-Chinchwad, stated, “After 1 am (on July 18), unidentified robbers planted explosives, broken the ATM machine and robbed the money.”
A number of days again, an analogous theft was tried at Rajan village in Pune Rural space, however the ATM machine was not totally broken and the robbers couldn’t get the money out.
Police now suspect that the identical gang is behind the theft in Pune and this time they used extra explosives to make sure that the machine suffers enough harm.