London: In a Hollywood-style heist, a group of thieves prepared for months and dug a 100-feet tunnel to reach an ATM only to get away with 6,000 pounds due to limited funds in the machine.
In order to lay their hands on extra cash, the thieves put in elaborate planning and work in digging a 100-feet tunnel under a building to reach a cash machine.
The labour-intensive robbery saw the gang spend six months digging a passageway under a Blockbuster Video in Fallowfield, Manchester to get up underneath the cash machine, the Daily Mail reported.
Amazingly, the group managed to get into the cash machine after completing the tunnel, which they had started four years ago in a previous botched raid.
The thieves originally dug around 60-feet of tunnel in August 2007, but their secret raid was discovered by builders laying cables.
Not to be deterred, the criminals returned to the passageway and finally got to the cash but after all their toil only got away with around 6,000 pounds. The thieves dug the tunnel from a railway embankment at the rear of the shop, which then went under a car park and beneath the foundations of the store.
The passageway was around 100-feet in length and around 4-feet tall. It had also been fitted with lighting and roof supports.
The tunnel was dug directly underneath the cash machine, where the offenders then used machinery to cut through more than 15 inches of concrete to steal money from the ATM.
The thieves then made their getaway back down the tunnel.
"In all my years of service, I have never seen anything quite as elaborate as this," Detective Sergeant Ian Shore from CID was quoted as saying by the Mail.
"The financial detriment to the victim could have been a lot worse, and the offenders did not get away with as much money as I believe they may have originally hoped. The machine had limited funds available," he added.
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