AFP
Jan 3, 2010
Watch out: Thieves rob Tokyo jewellery store
AFP
Jan 3, 2010
TOKYO, Jan 3, 2010 (AFP) - Thieves bored a hole in the concrete wall of a jewellery shop on Tokyo's fashionable Ginza street and made off with watches worth about 300 million yen (3.2 million dollars), police said Sunday 3 January.
 Photo: AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno |
About 200 luxury watches were stolen from glass showcases in the Tenshodo store in the bustling shopping district, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department said after the theft was discovered on Saturday 2 January.
"The hole was bored into a concrete wall located in a narrow strip of land between Tenshodo and an adjacent building," he said.
A security camera caught two intruders moving around in the basement hours before employees came to work Saturday 2 January for the first day of new year sales at the shop, press reports said.
In February last year, another shop was robbed of 50 million yen worth of jewellery.
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