An amazing plot to raid a Manchester cashpoint machine from underground has been foiled - after workmen stumbled on a 20-metre tunnel.The elaborate plan by the crooks - dubbed the `Mole Gang' - was unearthed by workmen laying electric cables at a building site close to Fallowfield Retail Park.
They uncovered the complex tunnel, which had been dug out from a nearby railway embankment and was heading towards the ATM at a nearby Blockbuster Video store.
The `Great Escape'- type tunnel had been reinforced with scaffolding and electric lighting had been installed. Inside it were tools, shovels, a wheelbarrow and bags of soil.
Police believe the would-be-raiders must have been digging the tunnel for weeks. It is not known how they disposed of the soil.
The tunnel has now been filled in with cement.
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