A man is in hospital under police guard after allegedly blowing up an ATM at Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police said three people used an explosive to gain access to the ATM in Victoria Street around 2:45am.<\/p>\n
The trio fled on foot, but one man was found injured a short time later in Peel Street.<\/p>\n
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A man aged in his 40s was treated by paramedics and later taken to hospital. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said Advanced Life Support paramedics responded around 3am.<\/p>\n
“A male in his 40s was treated for upper body injuries and transported to The Alfred in a serious condition,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police said the man was under police guard and would be interviewed.<\/p>\n
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Three men were spotted on security cameras at the ATM at Queen Victoria Market.<\/p>\n
Queen Victoria Market chief executive Matt Elliot said police arrived at the scene two minutes after the men were flagged as suspicious.<\/p>\n
“They were identified on our security cameras immediately and identified as suspicious and our security then contacted Victoria Police,” he said.<\/p>\n
“That was sufficient time for them to interfere with the ATM and unfortunately they’ve hurt themselves in the process.”<\/p>\n
Mr Elliott said he was not sure what type of explosive was used on the ATM.<\/p>\n
“I understand it wasn’t anything of scale \u2026 it was described to me like hitting it with a hammer, that kind of impact,” he said.<\/p>\n
Police said the investigation into the incident was ongoing and urged anyone with information or footage to call CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in hospital under police guard after allegedly blowing up an ATM at Queen Victoria Market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3340,11322,11324,11323,9705,260,1047,3871],"class_list":["post-10150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-arrest","tag-atm","tag-blast","tag-explosion","tag-injury","tag-melbourne","tag-police","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}