Brazil bank raiders dug tunnel for three months

Thieves spent three months tunnelling under a busy city avenue in north-eastern Brazil to break into a Central Bank vault and pull off one of the world’s biggest robberies.

The crime that netted $67.8m (€54.8m) was remarkably similar to a tunnel heist last year in which more than one million dollars was stolen from a Sao Paulo company that transports money for banks.