Three men armed with sledgehammers smashed an ATM machine and tried to drag it away with a car.
The raiders struck the auto-teller inside Virgin bank in Edinburgh city centre in the early hours of this morning.
A police source said: “They had sledgehammers which they used to smash their way in and then tried to rip the ATM out with a car.
“They didn’t get away with anything.”
Police Scotland confirmed they attended an incident in Castle Street at 3.30am and said enquiries are ongoing.
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In January thieves ploughed into an ATM outside a newsagents with a JCB digger.
The front end of the shop, in Gorgie, was completely destroyed in the raid.
