On Monday, Armed men made off with a shipment of diamonds worth around $50 million as it was being loaded onto a plane at the Brussels airport.

According to Antwerp World Diamond Centre spokeswoman Caroline De Wolf, the diamonds stolen were worth around $50 million. Even earlier the broadcaster VRT said, citing unnamed sources, that 10 kilograms of diamonds with a value of 350 million euros ($467 million) were stolen during the robbery.

Moreover, the thieves broke through a fence at the Belgian capital’s main airport with two vehicles at 7:47 pm as said by the airport in a statement.

To say more, the men in the car rode to a Swiss airplane where they stole valuable goods. There was no shooting, and no one got injured. This lasted only a few minutes, and after that, they left the airport domain through the damaged fence. The thieves targeted a van from the Brink’s security company that was loading the diamonds on a plane bound for Zurich while a burned vehicle was later found on the outskirts of Brussels with police investigating whether it was one of the getaway cars.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)