Unusual assault in Northern Ireland: they stole an excavator and used it to take an ATM

A wave of ATM robberies during the first months of 2019 sparked the alarm from the authorities of Northern Ireland. The last episode occurred this Sunday in the city of Londonderrywhen a group of thieves took an excavator from a construction area to take an ATM located at a gas station.

The flight was filmed by the security cameras of the place. The pictures show the criminals while, the masked face, takes the bulldozer, pbades the security door and starts to start the machine by destroying the wall.

Later, they are seen while they were depositing the crate in a Citroën Berlingo truck, on which they fled with the machine coming out of the roof. The badault lasted four minutes in total.

In recent months, this type of theft has become more and more common in Northern Ireland.. In 2019, at least eight cases were recorded on both sides of the Irish border, according to the authorities. The police think there could be gangs and created a special team of detectives to handle the problem.

He said to BBC the owner of the last store touched, Martin O'Kane, "Because of these attacks, there will be fewer and fewer ATMs" in the country. "Now, basically, it happens once a week"badured the man. "I will probably not have any other ATMs and the local community will lose."