Armed men made off with a shipment of diamonds as it was being loaded onto a plane at the Brussels airport, Belgian media reported Tuesday. Ten kilograms of diamonds with a value of 350 million euros ($467 million) were stolen during the heist late Monday, the broadcaster VRT reported. The thieves broke through a fence at the Belgian capital's main airport with two vehicles at 7:47 pm (1847 GMT), the airport said in a statement quoted by DPA. "The men in the car rode to a Swiss airplane where they stole valuable goods," it said. "There was no shooting, and no one got injured. This lasted only a few minutes, and after that, they left the airport domain through the damaged fence." The thieves targeted a van from the Brink's security company that was loading the diamonds on a plane bound for Zurich, media reports said. A burned vehicle was later found on the outskirts of Brussels with police investigating whether it was one of the getaway cars, VRT reported.
