Shanghai police is hunting four men suspected of robbing a local
shop of jewellery worth 800,000 yuan (about US$100,000), according
to the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau yesterday.
Initial investigation showed that the four men drove to the
jewellery store in Jiading District at 6:40?AM Sunday. Three
of them, armed with knives, rushed into the store when a shop
assistant, surnamed Zhang, just opened the door to do cleaning. The
men bound up Zhang and took away a strongbox which contains
jewellery worth 800,000 yuan.
Zhang reported the robbery to police at 7:24 AM, according to
local public.
Investigation into the case is still under way.
(Shanghai Daily March 7, 2006)
