Armed robbers steal US$6.3 million from Samsung

Guardian:

Thieves haved raided a Samsung electronics factory in Brazil during the night shift, subduing workers and guards before making off with about US$6.3m worth of mobile phones and computers.

The gang of heavily armed men captured eight plant employees as they neared the factory in a company bus just before midnight, said civil police in São Paulo state.

They stole the workers’ ID tags and took two of them with them as hostages as they entered the factory in the college town of Campinas. The remaining six employees were taken to an unknown location.

Once inside the gang overpowered security guards and spent more than three hours in the plant trucking out the electronics.

A real black eye for Brazil as a home for future electronics manufacturing.