Moscow (dpa) – Armed men broke into a Russian factory to steal platinum ingots worth 5.7 million dollars, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday. The robbers held night shift workers at gunpoint in a fiberglass plant in the southern city of Astrakhan, some 1,300 kilometers south of the capital Moscow. Approximately 40 platinum ingots weighing between 100 and 150 kilograms were stolen in the heist, but no one was hurt, said Petr Rusanov, a police spokesman. Police had set up roadblocks throughout the Volga River province and were searching for a group of 10 to 12 suspects and a vehicle thought to contain the ingots, he said. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/1Drvj Tags: Crime, Platinum, Russia Section: Europe
