Destroyed 500 and 2,000 rupee notes in the cash machine. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Rats have nibbled through more than 1m rupees of banknotes after entering a cash machine in north-east India, police said.
The costly invasion in Assam state was only detected by bank officials after complained that the machine was faulty and had stopped dispensing cash, police in Tinsukia district said.
“The bank officials came to check the ATM machine last week and found a dead rat and shredded banknotes when it was opened,” the district police superintendent, Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta, said.
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Shock and gnaw: Rats chew through £13,000 in cash after sneaking into a cash machine in India
The rats munched through an estimated 1.2 million rupees (£13,000) worth of hard currency
Rats nibbled through more than a million rupees of banknotes after busting into a cash machine in India.
The rats munched through an estimated 1.2 million rupees (£13,000) worth of hard currency, local media reported.
The rodent heist in Assam state was only detected by bank officials after locals complained that the ATM was faulty and had stopped dispensing cash, police in Tinkusia district said.
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Rats break into ATM, munch through $18 000 in cash
Indian police on Thursday said rats nibbled through more than a million rupees of banknotes after busting into a cash machine in the country's northeast.
The rodent heist in Assam state was only detected by bank officials after locals complained that the ATM was faulty and had stopped dispensing cash, police in Tinkusia district told AFP.
"The bank officials came to check the ATM machine last week and found a dead rat and shredded banknotes when it was opened," said district police superintendent Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta.
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Rats break into ATM, munch through $18,000 in cash
Rats munched through an estimated 1.2 million rupees ($18,000) worth of hard currency in Assam, India. (AFP)
Indian police on Thursday said rats nibbled through more than a million rupees of banknotes after busting into a cash machine in the country’s northeast.
The rodent heist in Assam state was only detected by bank officials after locals complained that the ATM was faulty and had stopped dispensing cash, police in Tinkusia district told AFP.
“The bank officials came to check the ATM machine last week and found a dead rat and shredded banknotes when it was opened,” said district police superintendent MugdHajjyoti Dev Mahanta.
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Rat breaches bank ATM in India, eats $24,000 worth of cash
When bank technicians in India were finally summoned to investigate why an automated teller machine had not been working for days, they began to smell a rat.
What they found inside the ATM was almost $US18,000 ($24,000) worth of shredded Indian rupee notes and one dead rodent that had somehow eluded the machine's security camera for its next, and last, meal, a State Bank of India (SBI) official said on Thursday.
"The ATM was out of order for a few days and when our technicians opened the kiosk we were shocked to find shredded notes and a dead rat," said Chandan Sharma, SBI branch manager in the town of Tinsukia in the northeastern state of Assam.
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Rats chew through more than $20,000 of cash at Indian ATM
A bank in India has been hit by thieves, but the tiny robbers weren’t interested in spending the cash. Rather, they were keen on eating it.
A bunch of cheeky rats have been named as the culprits behind a loss of almost $23,000 in cash, chewing through the money after getting into an ATM.
As we learned from a story from The Indian Express, the machine had stopped working, conking out back in mid-May.
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Rats Break Into ATM In Assam, Munch Through Rs. 12 Lakh In Cash
The rodent heist was only detected after locals complained that the ATM had stopped dispensing cash
Police on Thursday said rats nibbled through more than Rs. 12 lakh worth of banknotes after busting into a cash machine in Assam's Tinsukia district.
The rodent heist was only detected by bank officials after locals complained that the ATM was faulty and had stopped dispensing cash, police in Tinkusia district told AFP.
"The bank officials came to check the ATM machine last week and found a dead rat and shredded banknotes when it was opened," said district police superintendent Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta.
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Mice sneak into Tinsukia ATM, nibble through Rs 12 lakh
A different kind of demonetisation struck Assam’s Tinsukia district when mice allegedly shredded notes worth Rs 12 lakh inside a State Bank of India (SBI) ATM.
The SBI ATM (DFBK – 000196116) in Hijuguri’s Bahbari locality has been shut due to a technical snag since May 20. However, behind closed doors, unknown to the world, it was hosting an army of four-legged guests: mice. On June 11, when a few repairmen visited the outlet to get the machine fixed, they were surprised to find heaps of 500 and 2,000 rupee notes shredded into tiny pieces.
“The cash dispenser of the ATM had stopped working so it was shut down on May 20,” says a local police officer from Hijuguri. The SBI ATM is currently under the management of a Guwahati-based financial company named FIS: Global Business Solutions. “The ATM might be under the SBI banner but all maintenance has been outsourced to FIS. We just source the money, they do everything else,” says a bank officer. The concerned ATM falls under the category of Brown Label ATM where a service provider (in this case FIS) owns the hardware of the ATM, but “cash management is handled by a sponsor bank (in this case SBI) whose brand is used on the ATM.”
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Rats Destroy Notes In SBI ATM In Assam, HDFC Bank Says ‘Not Our ATM’
An SBI official confirms to BOOM that it was their ATM but being a brown-label machine, the liability will be on the third-party company managing it
A few images of shredded currency notes from inside an ATM machine have been going viral on WhatsApp and other social media platforms claiming that this is the work of rats.
The posts on social media also claimed that this happened inside an HDFC ATM, calling it as a surgical strike.
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