Thieves steal bronze age treasure in ‘very well planned’ four-minute museum heist

Spanish gold collection known as Treasure of Villena, worth at least €1.7m, is latest target of criminal raidThieves on Thursday morning raided the Treasure of Villena – a stunning collection of bronze age gold artefacts that has been de…

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