A Woman in China has been detained

A Woman in China has been detained after tearing open an ATM with bare hands claiming it 'ate' her card

Police have detained a woman in Northeast China's Changchun for tearing open an ATM machine with her bare hands on Thursday after claiming it swallowed her debit card. However, according to bank clerks, no cards were found in the ATM in Jilin province.

After pulling off the machine's frame and revealing the receipt paper underneath, the woman became increasingly distressed and asked passers-by to help her find her card.

Although several people called the police for help, one man cruelly tricked the woman into shouting at the ATM in the hope that it would give her card back.

Surveillance footage shows that the whole incident lasted around 10 minutes.

A member of staff at the ATM's bank, which has not been named by media, has expressed surprise that anyone could rip off the front of the machine.

Several people have said that the woman claimed that the same ATM had swallowed her card two months earlier and had put a number of small objects through the card slot.

Since the event, the woman has been taken to a local mental facility after police ordered that she undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

A similar incident took place last year, when a woman tore apart a machine in Dongguan in the Chinese province of Guandong.

In this case, a spokesperson for the shopping centre in which the event took place, said that it may have been possible for the woman to dismantle the machine because it had been in service for a long time.