One million yen stolen in a 3-minute heist at Japan’s Ninja Museum.
The Japanese police revealed that the thieves broke into the Iga-Ryu museum, and escaped with a hefty safe in just 3 minutes.
A group of thieves carried out an astonishing heist in a famous museum located in central Japan and escaped with over a million yen. The Guardian reported that the burglars broke into a popular Ninja museum and stole a hefty safe within a matter of minutes in the early hours of Monday morning.
1 million yen robbed from a Japanese museum in a space of 3 minutes:
As reported by BBC, law enforcement officials were called to the Iga-Ryu Ninja Museum after an alarm went off – post the escape of thieves. The police revealed that the main office of the museum had been robbed and its entrance was forced open with a crowbar. The hefty safe weighed around 150 kg and contained over a million yen (roughly 7 lakhs). The museum had collected a huge amount over the weekend, from more than a thousand visitors to the museum. The thieves could break into the establishment and managed to escape, all within three minutes, stated the Iga city police. As per the investigation carried out by the police, it seems that the thieves had waited for the museum staff to leave on Sunday evening, before breaking into the office.
CCTV footage reveals a man turning the camera downwards to conceal the heist:
CCTV footage of the museum captured a car pulling into the museum’s driveway, after which a man climbed out of the passenger seat and pointed the camera downwards to refrain it from capturing the act of crime. The robbery took just as visitors were beginning to return to the museum, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Iga-Ryu Ninja Museum has been dedicated to the history of the ninja and ninjutsu and was a thriving tourist spot in the city situated in central Japan.
