Remember Dhoom 2 in which Hrithik Roshan wooed the viewers with some insanely clever thefts? Well, something similar happened today at the Green Vault Museum in Dresden, Germany.
In a mind-boggling heist which is also being hailed as the world's biggest-ever theft in postwar history, thieves broke into Green Vault and stole priceless jewels. The burglars robbed three of the ten diamond jewellery sets from Europe's treasure collection.
"The Grüne Gewölbe (or Green Vault) has been stripped of hundreds of artefacts, after the thieves reportedly started a fire in the early hours of Monday that led to a breakdown in the power supply and the failure of security alarms," The Guardian reported.
The thieves sneaked inside the museum by removing part of an iron grill and then smashing the glass of a window on the ground floor.
As per a report by BBC, the stolen sets consist of 37 parts each. It is being suspected that the thieves may try to break them up before selling them off.
The director of Dresden's State Art Collections, Marion Ackermann, said it is not possible to estimate the value of stolen items. She said, "We cannot give a value because it is impossible to sell."
Confirming the theft, German police said in a statement, "We can confirm that there has been a break-in in the Grüne Gewölbe... the perpetrators are on the run."