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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid

Queen Nazli of Egypt's 1939 diamond and platinum collar necklace on display
The 200-carat platinum and diamond-encrusted necklace. Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty

Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belonged to Egyptian royalty.

Authorities in the capital released pictures of the suspects captured by security cameras during the heist at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), amid a rash of spectacular smash-and-grab thefts from European cultural institutions.

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