Read why the whole of #India is scared of ATM machines.

For the last week, people in the southern Indian city of Bangalore have been gripped by an ATM-phobia, following a brutally unprecedented attack on a woman-banker inside an ATM kiosk in the heart of the city.

ATMs have been a favourite target of thieves in this city, popularly called India’s Silicon Valley for its huge software industry.

There have been several instances of thieves breaking into ATM kiosks, using welding equipment to unhinge the machines and then lug them into waiting vans to open them at leisure. But the daring attack on a customer was the first of its kind.

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