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The safe was left strewn with empty
safety deposit boxes when police found it after the Easter weekend (Image source: Daily Mail UK)
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British police said they had arrested seven suspects, one aged 76, on
Tuesday over a multi-million pound raid in London's jewellery business district
last month, which local media said could have been the country's biggest-ever
heist.
Thieves used heavy cutting equipment
to break into a vault at Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd over the Easter
holiday where they ransacked about 70 boxes, according to Reuters.
Police have given no details of what
was stolen but media estimated it could be as much as 200 million pounds (US$300
million), dwarfing the amounts taken in Britain's previous biggest heists.
More than 200 officers raided 12
addresses in north London and southeast England on Tuesday, arresting seven men
aged between 48 and 76.
Detectives said large bags containing
"significant amounts of high value property" were found in one of the
properties they raided which they believed were stolen during the burglary.
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