Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Cash machine attacks have S.Africa banks stumped

(Reuters) - Blowing up cash dispensers is becoming a favourite tactic of South African bank robbers, and the country's embattled police as well as its banks are struggling to find a way to prevent it.

Banks report a dramatic rise in this type of crime over the past three years. In the past two weeks alone, five attacks on cash machines have been reported in the coastal city of Durban and police say they have made no arrests.


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