Thieves raid bronze age collection in ‘super-fast’ Spain museum heist
It is not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects from the Treasure of Villena were taken in the raid on Thursday. Thieves have raided the Treasure of Villena, one of the greatest Bronze Age gold collections, in the latest high-profile heist on a European museum, officials said.
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- Fact 1: It is not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects from the Treasure of Villena were taken in the raid on Thursday.
- Fact 2: It was not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects in the collection were taken in the heist on Thursday, as police were still making an inventory, a spokesperson for the council in the Spanish town of Villena said.
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- Fact 4: “The alarm at the Villena Museum went off around 5:20am,” said the spokesperson, adding that by 5:24am the thieves had left the building.
It is not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects from the Treasure of Villena were taken in the raid on Thursday. Thieves have raided the Treasure of Villena, one of the greatest Bronze Age gold collections, in the latest high-profile heist on a European museum, officials said.
It was not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects in the collection were taken in the heist on Thursday, as police were still making an inventory, a spokesperson for the council in the Spanish town of Villena said. ‘Swept away’: Nepal families search for relatives after devastating floods How a 95 percent drop in Hormuz traffic changed global shipping Nepal-Tibet floods: What is a glacial collapse, how common is it? “The alarm at the Villena Museum went off around 5:20am,” said the spokesperson, adding that by 5:24am the thieves had left the building.
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