Gold coins worth €1.6m stolen in nine-minute heist from German museum

Thieves have stolen a hoard of Celtic gold coins worth about €1.6m (£1.4m) from a museum in Germany.

Hundreds of coins were taken from the museum in Manching, Bavaria, in the middle of the night in a nine-minute raid, police said.

The thieves may have sabotaged the museum's alarm system. Just before the break-in, nearby internet cables were cut causing widespread outages.

Police are exploring whether the theft is linked to previous raids.

The outages meant the alarm system was not triggered when a door was pried open, although it was able to record when the robbery happened.

Employees discovered shattered glass on the museum floor and the coins missing from their display case the next morning. read more