article_snippet: An audacious raid on two armoured trucks on a busy motorway was last night being linked to a notorious gang known as the Pink Panthers.
article_snippet: An audacious raid on two armoured trucks on a busy motorway took place just after midnight as the security trucks approached the toll at Avallon in Burgundy, 125 miles south-east of Paris on the A6.
article_snippet: Burnt-out vehicles are seen after a group of battle-hardened armed thieves attacked two heavily guarded vans carrying jewels .
article_snippet: four cars used gas sprays to knock out the two armed guards in each lorry.
article_snippet: the two armed guards were pulled from the two armed guards cabs and dumped by the toll booth.
article_snippet: No shots were fired and three Serb members of the Pink Panthers drove off in the security trucks, which belonged to a Paris company and were full of jewels and other valuables.
article_snippet: Other gang members escaped in the cars.
article_snippet: the security trucks, which belonged to a Paris company and were full of jewels and other valuables were found burned out – and empty – four hours later, 20 miles north in a wood in the village of Quenne, just off the A6 near Auxerre.
article_snippet: A mechanical digger was discovered with A mechanical digger arm inside one truck, suggesting that the safes on board were transferred to the get-away cars.
article_snippet: There were reports that the get-away cars were spotted speeding towards Paris.
highlights_snippet: The two vans were found burned in a forest near the site of the attack .
  
highlights_snippet: Gang used gas to force security personnel out of Gang vehicles .
  