$1M rail snatch
NZPA-Reuter Fabri, Italy Masked train robbers have stolen bags of gold and platinum worth at least SIM from the Milan-Rome express in one of Italy’s smoothest railway robberies. The police say the fourman gang stopped the train outside a tunnel near Orvieto by changing a signal to red. They unhooked five carriages, one of them a postal van. Three minutes later, the signal changed back to green, the train went into a tunnel and three of the men raided the van. They bound and gagged the two guards, then gave them injections of tranquilliser. About 20 bags containing gold and platinum objects for air-freight abroad were thrown to a fourth man who loaded them on a home-made rail cart. The train driver failed to notice the loss until he rounded a curve. He raised the alarm, but the men had disappeared with the loot. A big search began. j
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Press, 2 April 1979, Page 9
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