Rats have been accused after bank notes that amount to 1.2m rupees (£13,300, $17,600) were found shredded to bits in a faulty cash machine in Assam, India.

Technicians arrived to fix the malfunctioning ATM and were shocked to see the money in it has been destroyed. Pictures of the shredded bank notes at the State Bank of India branch in Tinsukia district were widely shared on Twitter.