Jewellery thieves raid London's Hatton Garden
You wouldn't have done a job like this unless you'd organised who you're going to sell to.
Burglars using heavy cutting equipment have broken into several safety deposit boxes in a vault in London's Hatton Garden jewellery quarter, Scotland Yard said.
Officers from the Met's Flying Squad are investigating the raid after police were called to the central London address at around 8.10am yesterday morning.
The raid is thought to have happened over the Easter bank holiday weekend at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company.
Safety deposit boxes at the store are mainly used by Hatton Garden jewellers, with reports suggesting that up to 300 boxes might have been broken into.
Diamond jewellery expert Lewis Malka, who works on Hatton Garden, tweeted: "Quiet day in the office and then I find out one of my client's antique bracelets was stolen in the Hatton Garden robbery."
Mr Malka said the haul was likely to amount to "hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds".