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A band of thieves smashed their way into a royal jewellers in central London, making off on mopeds with a valuable haul, police said.
The gang used weapons including an axe and bats to break into Mappin and Webb jewellers on Regent Street, in the heart of London's shopping district.
A trio of thieves stole "a high value of jewellery items" while three accomplices "waited outside on revved-up scooters throughout the raid", London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
The force did not give a figure for total losses at Mappin and Webb, where numerous pieces of jewellery run into the tens of thousands of pounds.
After the raid the mopeds sped off in separate directions, with one racing towards Oxford Street before crashing into a female pedestrian who was not seriously injured.
One weapon and two of the scooters abandoned after the heist have been seized by the police, but so far, there have been no arrests.
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