IPOH: Robbers blew up an automated teller machine (ATM) of an AmBank branch at Jalan Haji Mustafa Raja Kamala in Tanjung Malim, about 130km south of here, early yesterday and escaped with RM270,000 in cash, according to the police.
Muallim District police chief Supt Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said the two other machines at the bank were a cash deposit machine and a cheque deposit machine.
It was earlier reported that the robbers had blown up three ATMs.
“Only the ATM was blown up in the robbery at about 6.30am. The blast shattered the glass panels of the room where the machines were,” he said when contacted.
Wan Kamarul Azran said the robbers grabbed the money from the damaged ATM. He said earlier yesterday that the loot was RM300,000, but confirmed later in the day that the robbers had taken RM270,000.
He said based on an initial investigation, the bank had loaded RM300,000 into that ATM on Sunday evening.
He also said the security authorities at the AmBank headquarters in Kuala Lumpur informed the police that the alarm at the bank in
Tanjung Malim had gone off at 6.45am.
Wan Kamarul Azran said a man living opposite the bank told the police that he heard an explosion at about 6.30am and, through a window of his house, saw three men going in and out of the bank.
“The eyewitness said the men left in a red car, but he could not verify the make and registration number.
“A CCTV footage showed two masked men enter the room where the ATM was and then come out before the explosion,” he said. — Bernama