Armed robbers stolen dozens items from Greek museum

Athens: Greek officials have confirmed that armed robbers have stolen dozens of items on display at the museum in Ancient Olympia.

Sixty-eight objects were whisked from a museum dedicated to the ancient Olympic Games after two masked men immobilised the museum’s sole female guard as she arrived for her early morning shift, the officials said.

The police said “bronze and clay objects and a gold ring” had been removed from display cases at the museum, which is built on a forested hilltop on the outskirts of the small town of Olympia.

“There were two of them, and they had a gun,” Olympia Mayor Thymios Kotzias told Flash Radio.

Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos has tendered his resignation after the incident, but it has so far not been accepted. He is on his way to the site in western Greece.