Man tries to rob bank with bulldozer

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A Saudi man posing as a municipal worker used a bulldozer in an inept attempt to rob a bank's cash machine but fled when the police arrived, a local daily has reported.


The English-language Arab News said residents of the Red Sea city Jeddah called the police after being woken by the noise of the bulldozer, but did not realise for some time that the man was trying to rob the bank.


"It was disturbing. But it never crossed my mind we were watching a theft," witness Mohammed al-Assiri told Arab News on Tuesday. "With all that's happening this is the last thing we need."


Saudi Arabia has been rocked by a wave of shooting and bomb attacks attributed to al Qaeda in the past year, in which up to 85 police and civilians, many of them foreigners, have been killed.