A gas attack raid on an ATM machine in Hanwell took place in the early hours of this morning.
Police were called to the attempted raid the ATM at Boston Parade at 4.43am today, Monday, January 12.
On arrival officers discovered the ATM had been damaged.
The suspects had gone before police arrived. Fire and ambulance services were called as a precaution.
There have been no arrests and it is thought the raid was unsuccessful.
Road closures were in place but roads are now open.
This attack is the latest in a series of cash point robberies in the area in the last few months. Using gas canisters to explode cash machines is a method gangs are reportedly using more and more. The method involves inserting a tube into the cash dispenser, flooding it with a combustible gas from a canister, then activating a trigger device.
Throughout November 2014 there were three similar attacks on machines in South Ealing, Acton and Isleworth.
A cash machine was blown up in a raid at the Post Office on South Ealing Road in the early hours of Tuesday, November 18. On the previous Friday (November 14) police were called to Sainsbury’s Local in Gunnersbury Lane, Acton following reports of a gas attack on the ATM and around 15 minutes later a similar incident happened at the Co Op in Isleworth.
A gang who blew up an ATM machine with a mixture of explosive gases in Kent were jailed for more than 30 years in November last year.
The five men raided the Barclays Bank cash machine in Sevenoaks, Kent.
Cash to the value of £19,000 had been stolen and there was structural damage to the building.
