Gang ‘prised open shutters and used sledgehammers to smash cabinets’ in latest raid on Hong Kong jewellery shops
Four masked robbers stole more than HK$200,000 worth of gold ornaments and jewellery from store in Tai Po
A gang of four masked robbers stole more than HK$200,000 (US$25,470) worth of gold ornaments and jewellery in the latest in a spate of smash-and-grab raids in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
A police source said three men prised up the rolling shutter of Wing Hing Lung Jewellery store in Kwong Fuk Road, Tai Po before “one of the men used a sledgehammer to smash open two glass cabinets and the other two grabbed valuables”.
“The trio ran out of the shop and jumped into a white getaway car driven by a fourth man. It took less than two minutes,” the source said.
A passer-by saw the men fleeing and called police at 4.30am. The shop was fitted with an alarm system that did not ring on site but silently alerted a security company which called police.
The police source said other expensive items of jewellery and gold ornaments were locked in a vault.
The raid was the city’s seventh smash-and-grab theft in 13 months. The previous six raids involved valuables worth HK$70 million and prompted two jewellery industry bodies to issue security alerts and advice to members.
