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Sam Yarwood

Video shows man tossing beer barrel through window of town centre bank

This is the moment a beer barrel was hurled through the window of a town centre bank.

The footage, posted on social media , shows a man walking up to the front of the building and throwing a metal barrel at the glass door.

He then walks through the shattered glass into the bank and appears to be shouting at someone before smoke - believed to be a security measure - starts to fill the building.

Witnesses say the man tried to smash the door a few times before he was eventually successful in smashing a window.

The man brazenly tossed the beer barrel before stepping into the shop after shattering a glass pane (MEN)

Cops were called to a Barclays branch on Market Place in Wigan, Lancashire, just before 4.50pm on Friday to reports of criminal damage, reports the Manchester Evening News .

Officers say a man was detained by members of the public before being arrested.

The scene remained taped off on Friday night while investigation work was carried out.

Police at the scene outside the Barclays branch in Wigan (MEN)

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said: "Police were called shortly before 4.50pm today (Friday, January 10) to reports of criminal damage at a bank on Market Place in Wigan Town Centre.

"A man was detained by members of the public before being arrested by police on suspicion of criminal damage and taken to custody."

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