Dumb crooks: Thieves hijack truck loaded with copper in Chile
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Thieves hijacked a truck loaded with 20 tonnes of copper cathodes worth about $32,000, Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, said on Friday.
"We don't have any information about where the truck might be right now, but where are they going to go? It's kind of hard to hide a big truck like that full of copper," Jorge Sanhueza, spokesman for Radomiro Tomic, told Reuters.
A similar crime occurred about two years ago. The truck was tracked down after a few hours. Its cargo was intact.
"They weren't able to unload the copper. It was too heavy," said Sanhueza. Each copper cathode weighs about 80 kilos, he said. |
