Bank’s ATM damaged, suspect arrested over botched theft attempt


MELAKA: A local bank here incurred RM5,000 damages after a disabled man struck its Automated Teller Machine (ATM) with a claw hammer in a botched attempt to steal cash.

Melaka Tengah OCPD Asst Comm Afzanizar Ahmad said the 43-year-old suspect had smashed the cash dispenser part of the ATM outside a bank along Jalan Munshi Abdullah between 4am and 5am recently.

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