Eight armed men made a hole in a security fence at Brussels international airport, drove on to the tarmac and snatched diamonds worth millions of dollars from a plane without firing a shot.
The masked gang dressed like police and used two vehicles with blue lights in their raid on Monday.
They took the cache of stones and sped off, a spokeswoman for Brussels prosecutors' office said.
Police found a burnt-out vehicle close to the airport later that night and said they were still looking for clues.
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