They try to extract the ATM of a bank with a bulldozer stolen from a nearby construction site

Around 4:00 a.m. last morning, a good part of the residents of

, a town of about 2,250 inhabitants, woke up with a start to hear loud blows coming from a building of the

Located on one of the main roads of the town.

In that area, some individuals, more than three according to the first investigations, were trying to rob the ATM of said entity after planning an unprecedented assault that included minutes before the theft of an excavator that was parked on a nearby street;

They also stole a cart of firewood that had been parked at the door of a nearby house where they planned to deposit the loot.

In addition, they had a support vehicle on the outskirts of town, an

, to flee.

But the "exhaustive" planning of the robbery did not include an important detail: the loud noise produced by the impact of the excavator on the building, which even brought down an interior beam of the building, although fortunately the upper part of the premises was not She fell apart.

Of course, the facade was completely destroyed.

The annexed houses were also barely saved, which were in serious danger of being affected, where there is a bar and a private house.

And all this in the middle of

, which connects Mérida with Almendralejo, with constant movement of trucks since that hour of the morning, as the mayor of the town,

.

One of the neighbors who heard so much commotion alerted the Civil Guard, whose arrival caused the assailants to drop everything (the excavator with the motor running, the ATM itself ripped from the wall, which they did manage to extract, and the cart of firewood). in the middle of the street and ran away.

They have not yet been located.

According to some witnesses, the assailants had their faces covered with balaclavas.

The bulldozer used in the assault attempt.DV

As the councilor confirms, the driver of the excavator must have been a specialist in this type of vehicle, with a chain, "since it is not easy to drive."

It did so for approximately 300 meters, from where the heavy machine is parked every night in one of the streets of the town, after being used daily in a work of the

for the construction of a treatment plant, more than a kilometer from Torremejía.

The execution of the plan began the afternoon before the events when several individuals were apparently seen walking through the area where the bank is located as well as through the adjacent streets where the excavator was parked.

The

, which has taken charge of the investigation, continues its search and there have still been no arrests related to the case, although the track of the vehicle in which they fled, the Audi, may be decisive in catching them in the next few weeks. hours: "The perpetrators are not from the town," says the mayor, who appreciates the citizen's collaboration so that the robbery, finally, would be a "big scare", and in the ostentation of verifying the totally destroyed facade of the building.

Torremejía has three banks with their corresponding ATMs.

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