AFP: Masked men stole around 240 luxury watches worth a reported $1.29
million from a Hong Kong store in a matter of minutes early on Friday,
police said.
The three burglars, who were also wearing hats, snatched the watches
after they used a hammer to smash the glass door of the ground floor
shop at around 6:30 am local time.
Watch shop robberies are rare in the southern Chinese city of seven
million people, where only one such incident was recorded last year
among a total of around 76,000 reported crimes.
"We believe they were experienced because the incident took place
within around three minutes," police chief inspector Ma Kai-keung told
reporters. Police have not made any arrests but are looking into it.
The watches were reported by the South China Morning Post to be worth around HK$10 million ($1.29 million).
Footage from Cable Television News showed heavily damaged glass
display tables and a metal hammer at the shop, which was littered with
glass fragments.
The trio made their escape after they boarded a grey van parked around the corner of the store, Cable TV reported.
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