300 deposit boxes raided in London diamond quarter heist
Thieves have raided some 300 deposit boxes in London's diamond quarter, accessing the vault through a lift shaft and using heavy cutting equipment, the police and media reports said.
Thieves have raided some 300 deposit boxes in London's diamond quarter, accessing the vault through a lift shaft and using heavy cutting equipment, the police and media reports said.
The daring heist apparently took place over the long Easter weekend and police said in a statement that they were only called to the address in Hatton Garden in central London at 8.10am on Tuesday.
"It appears that heavy cutting equipment has been used to get into a vault at the address and a number of safety deposit boxes have been broken into," London's Metropolitan Police said.
No estimate was given of how much the thieves have made away with. Police forensic officers could be seen at the location.
The thieves managed to disarm the building's sophisticated alarm system, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, while Sky News television said there were a total of about 600 safety deposit boxes in the vault.
