A group of thieves used an excavator to rip an ATM out of a bank in Sangli, Maharashtra.

Footage captured by a security camera on April 23 shows the arm of the vehicle ripping the machine away from the bank's wall.

The criminals managed to escape with the ATM but were unable to open it. The machine contained around £27,700.

According to local police chief Miraj Gramin Chandrakant Bedre, the excavator was also stolen from a nearby petrol station.

In a bizarre incident of theft, thieves used a JCB digger to steal money from an ATM in Maharashtra’s Sangli district on the night of 23rd April.

As seen on CCTV footage installed in the ATM of Axis bank a person is seen getting into the ATM after which going out abruptly. After this, a JCB machine is seen smashing the glass door of the ATM. And with the help of the JCB, thieves digged out the entire atm machine in an attempt to steal 25 lakh rupees cash I to it .

According to the police station incharge of Miraj Gramin Chandrakant Bedre mentioned that the ATM machine which was stolen on the intervening evening of April 22-23 belongs to AXIS financial institution.

Inspector Bedre mentioned that the thief first stole the JCB from a nearby petrol pump after which it was used to steal the ATM.
but the thief was not successful to open the cash box and unable to steal it , We discovered the stolen JCB and in addition discovered the ATM machine. There was Rs. 27 lakh money within the ATM machine police added

police are investigating the CCTV footage of the petrol pump from the place the JCB was stolen and also from ATM . Soon the culprits will be nabbed