In the early morning hours of May 6, 2023, an explosion occurred in a bank in the German town of Bad Homburg, sending shattered glass as far as 30 meters away. Two men had broken into the building and filled the ATM with

explosives

. Once the device did its job, they grabbed ₹165,000 ($1,80,287) in cash, jumped into the waiting getaway car and rushed off into the night.

The theft took just a couple of minutes.
Almost every day — or usually, every night — an ATM is blown up somewhere in

Germany

. Europe’s biggest e