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“(Reuters) – Armed robbers stole designer watches worth 700,000 pounds in simultaneous daytime raids on two upmarket department stores in Manchester on Wednesday, police said.
Two men carrying claw hammers smashed display cases at Selfridges, while a third filled a bag with watches worth 400,000 pounds.
At the same time, two men wearing motorcycle helmets attacked a security guard at the nearby Harvey Nichols store, broke cabinets with hammers and stole watches worth 300,000 pounds.
Both stores in the city’s Exchange Square shopping district were open at the time, but no customers were injured, police said.
The five men escaped in a stolen red Ford Transit van before switching to an unknown getaway car.
Detective Sergeant Dave Turner, of Greater Manchester Police, said: ‘This incident has left one man with minor injuries and a number of other people extremely distressed.”
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