Thieves scale scaffolding to steal Viking hoard

Thieves have stolen 400 Viking objects from a Norwegian museum, a loss described as “immeasurable”.

“If the stolen objects are not returned, this is by far the most terrible event in the 200 years of Norwegian museum history,” Henrik von Achen, the director of the University Museum of Bergen in southwestern Norway, told AFP.

The items, most of them small metal objects like jewellery, “do not have monetary value attached to them”. The thieves entered the museum on the seventh floor via scaffolding.