Highway robbery: £6 million in jewels stolen in French toll-booth attack

Two vans carrying 9 million euros (£6.4 million) worth of jewels were attacked by a gang of 15 armed assailants who forced out the drivers and sped away, police say. The attackers were waiting for the security vans at a toll booth on the A6 highway, which links Paris and Lyon in France. No one was injured in the attack, and the drivers of the two vans were left at the scene unharmed, a police official said.

Local media said the gang used gas to force security transport personnel out of their vehicles.

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The perpetrators escaped in four cars and the two vans, which police found burned and abandoned in a forest near the site of the attack, the official said. The jewels remain missing. Gendarmes and other authorities are combing the Burgundy region southeast of Paris for the attackers. The incident is the latest in a string of big jewel heists in France in recent years.

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