RAIDERS have ripped ATMs from two more shops as a spate of cashpoint raids continues across the district.

The stores, in Fairweather Green and Pudsey, were both targeted at around midnight on Saturday.

Police were not able to confirm on Sunday if they were treating the incidents as linked.

Inspector Carlton Young, of West Yorkshire Police, said it was believed a white Transit van and a silver 4x4 were involved in the raid at Londis, in Thornton Road, Fairweather Green, and that the three suspects left empty-handed.

When the Telegraph & Argus visited on Sunday morning, the cash machine was abandoned in the middle of the car park.

The raid was caught on CCTV. Footage shows the raiders attempting to move the machine after it has been ripped from the wall.

One resident, who did not wish to be named, saw the incident unfold after hearing a bang.

She said: “It’s scary. I’m not happy, I’ve got two children.”

Another resident branded the thieves “mindless idiots”.

The McColl’s store, in Bradford Road, Pudsey, was also targeted. A store worker confirmed the shop was closed on Sunday due to structural damage.

A huge hole could be seen in the side of the building, with rubble strewn across the car park. It is thought the cash machine was left at the scene.

The raids come after a shop in Saffron Drive, Allerton, was targeted on Tuesday night. Raiders using a 4x4 tried to drag a cash machine from inside the Your Local store, tearing the front of the shop down.

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On Sunday, Your Local manager Pramod Trivedi, 45, said of the raids: “Something needs to be done and it needs to be done quickly.”

The raid on his shop followed one earlier this month in Shipley and one in Clayton in January, where robbers blasted open a cash machine at the village’s Co-op store.