Fribourg police have revealed they caught two men in the act of trying to blow up a cash machine – and are now investigating if they’ve been responsible for other similar attacks.
The suspected robbers were by a machine in Villaz-St-Pierre at 2am last Friday.
The 53- and 36-year-olds were taken into custody.
Explosive attacks on ATMs have become a serious problem in the last few years in Switzerland.
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