Nalasopara: In an audacious daylight heist, two masked miscreants decamped with Rs 38 lakh from an Axis Bank ATM, located in Nalasopara east on Tuesday evening. The thieves also assaulted the security guard who was depositing the money in the ATM and fled the scene of the crime in a car.

According to the police, the robbery took place at around 5 pm at Axis bank ATM situated at Gaurai Pada area. When three persons including the security guard from the cash handling company reached the location in a cash van to refill money in the ATM, two masked miscreants arrived and one of them held the guard at gunpoint. However, the bullet loaded in the gun fell off and the other thief hit the security guard with a rod after snatching the bag of cash. They fled from the scene towards a waiting Wagon R car, which had no number plate and drove away. The injured security guard is recuperating in a local hospital.