KATHMANDU: Police have arrested a person while trying to break an ATM machine of the NIC Asia Bank.

A squad from the Metropolitan Police Range, Maligaun caught Akash Tamang, 21, from Dhulikhel red-handed last night from the ATM booth at the Sagarmatha Insurance Building, Naxal Bhagawati Bahal of Kathmandu metropolis-1.

Police believed that the accused was attempting to steal cash from the machine and alerted about this with a help of the Bank’s siren system. The team also seized a pair of instruments that Tamang used in his failed attempt to damage the machine.