Thieves used a digger to rip out an automatic cash dispensing machine (ATM) from a branch of the BES Bank in Quinta do Lago, Almancil, in the early hours of last Friday morning.
It is the twenty-first crime of its type to occur in southern Portugal (Algarve and the Alentejo) in just over a year.
The incident took place at around 3am, Friday morning. Police said it seems to have been planned in great detail.
The criminals chose one of few areas within ......