Just days after the dramatic heist at Paris’s Louvre Museum, China has witnessed an equally audacious theft -- one straight out of a crime thriller.

In central China’s Hunan province, a 46-year-old man named Zhao pulled off what authorities are calling a “Trojan horse-style” robbery by hiding inside a wooden delivery box to sneak into a residential building. Once inside, he stole gold and cash worth more than 200,000 Yuan (about Rs 25 lakh), according to the South China Morning Post.

The incident took place on October 9 in the city of Yueyang. Police sources said Zhao had arranged for the box to be delivered into an exit passage of the building, hoping to slip past security cameras. After sneaking out, he followed a woman into her apartment under the pretense of “recovering a debt” and f

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