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The Times of India
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TOI World Desk

Indian woman in Canada shocked after being victim of 'distraction theft', four gold bangles taken off wrists

An Indian woman in Canada, Santosh Sharma, was recently robbed when she was on her daily walk along Côte-Vertu Boulevard in the Saint-Laurent borough in Montreal. The incident took place recently and the woman told Canadian media CP24 that she was still in shock as she did not even understand when she was robbed.

A car stopped near her and the occupants, a white man and a woman, waved at her and said something. Sharma said she did not understand what they were saying but it was something like 'Mamma mia'. A third person approached her from behind and pushed her towards the car. Her son Vishnal Sharma said she is not that strong that she could resist anyone. When she was near the car, the occupants took four gold bangles off her wrists and then stuffed fake jewelry into her pocket and drove off. Santosh said it happened so fast and so smoothly that neither she got a good look at the thieves nor anyone around her seemed to have noticed.

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