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A rat has eaten up more than $19,000 after crawling into a Automated Teller Machine (ATM).
Police said the rodent slipped through a small cable hole in the back of the cash machine in Tinsukia, northeastern India and started eating and shredding up to 1.3 million rupees.
According to reports, on June 11, technicians arrived the town to fix the broken State Bank of India cash machine and found a dead rat inside it and Indian currency notes worth nearly 1.3 million rupees, or a little over $19,000, chewed to shreds.
Police superintendent Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta said Friday that the notes were in 500-rupee and 2,000-rupee denominations.
The ATM had been broken since May 20, officials said.
A State Bank of India official said the cash machine was overseen by another company and that investigation into the incident has been ordered.