They planted a crude but still high-impact bomb in the Postamat cash dispenser in Tinnura.
The explosion destroyed the machine and threw shrapnel onto a car, but it still didn’t open the safe containing the money. Indeed, the criminals fled empty-handed. The attempted robbery took place last night along Via Nazionale, a municipal section of State Road 292.
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Source: L’Unione Sarda News
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