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For the third time in a month, thieves have used heavy machinery to rob a bank on the Avalon Peninsula.

In this latest incident, police officers responded to the aftermath of a robbery on Monday morning just after 4 a.m., when someone used an excavator to tear into the corner of a bank in Mount Pearl, destroying the side of the building and leaving behind piles of broken wood and exposed wires.

In an email to CBC News, Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Const. James Cadigan said the thieves took the ATM from the bank, and left the excavator at the scene.