: Miscreants looted cash from two Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in Khaira and Soro of Baleswar district on Wednesday night.
The first incident occurred in Tudigadia market in Khaira where at least six miscreants looted an Axis bank ATM by cutting open the cash box with the help of gas cutters. They even bombed the kiosk while looting it.
The ATM is said to have Rs 20 lakh cash which has been stolen.
The second loot was reported from a Punjab National Bank ATM at Mangalpur in Soro. The miscreants looted cash worth over lakhs from this ATM by cutting it open before fleeing the scene.
The police have launched a probe in both cases. It is suspected that the same group of miscreants looted the two ATMs one after another.