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Burglars have used heavy cutting equipment to break into safety deposit boxes in a vault in London's jewellery quarter.
The raid is thought to have happened over the Easter bank holiday weekend at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company.
Officers from the Met's Flying Squad were called to the area at 08:10 BST.
In a statement, the Met Police said: "A number of safety deposit boxes have been broken into". They said inquiries were continuing.
Diamond jewellery expert Lewis Malka, who works in the area, said the haul was likely to amount to "hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds".
He said: "Most of the people who have got safety deposits there are people in the trade."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-32207974