Thursday, Jul 04, 2013
PETALING JAYA - Robbers struck at three Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) at two supermarkets and a bank within two and a half hours yesterday.
The CCTV recorders in both supermarkets were also taken by the robbers, who had used oxy-acetylene torches to cut through the ATMs.
However, the robbers of the third ATM at the bank failed to get anything after they tried to pull the machine using chains fastened to a truck.
In the first case at Taman Connaught in Cheras, supermarket staff were about to open their premises for business at about 7am yesterday when they saw an ATM broken into.
Police later found that the robbers had drilled through a wall of a Tenaga Nasional Bhd substation which was adjacent to the supermarket before entering the supermarket.
City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah said that the losses from the Cheras ATM were still being ascertained.
The same scenario was also repeated in Taman Kinrara in Puchong when supermarket employees were about to start work at 7.50am yesterday.
Serdang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Razak Elias said that about RM70,000 was missing.
"The suspects were believed to have drilled a hole through the garbage bin store before entering the supermarket," he said when met at the scene.
Earlier, two robbers in Kepong tried to pull an ATM at a bank in Kepong using chains hooked to a truck. However, SAC Ku said that they abandoned their attempt at about 5.30am.
"The suspects abandoned the ATM and escaped taking their chains with them," SAC Ku said in a press conference.
