French jewels are stolen by motorway thieves
Paris: Jewels worth £6m ($9.5m) are reported to have looted by armed men from two armored lorries at a French motorway toll booth.
As many as 15 hooded attackers are said to have seized the vehicles at about midnight on the A 6 motorway at Avallon, which is about 220 km (140 miles) south-east of Paris.
The lorry drivers were lucky to have unhurt by the looters who later abandoned the vehicles some distance away.
The gang of thieves is said to have fled in the direction of Paris.
The thieves ...