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Thieves in Belgium used sewers to dig a tunnel in a safe near the diamond shopping district of Antwerp.
The police were alerted Sunday by a possible burglary and, upon their arrival, discovered the closed bank door and about thirty deposit boxes emptied inside.
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The robbers seem to have had to dig their way through sewer pipes as wide as 40 cm (15 inches) wide, before digging a new tunnel to reach the shore.
The police have not yet announced the amount stolen during the raid.
Els Liekens of the water company, Aquafin, said the flight was very risky.
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"First, digging the tunnel to the sewer system was dangerous for the thieves themselves because of a possible subsidence," she said.
"And in sewers, you encounter all kinds of hazards, such as gas concentrations from sewage."
Bank customers were upset by the lack of information from the bank, with some claiming that the boxes contained their life savings.
"Many people keep not only money or jewelry, but also family rooms," said one of them.
A similar raid in the French city of Nice in 1976 allowed a gang to spend months digging a tunnel in the sewers to access a branch of Société Générale. They looted more than 200 safes, making millions of dollars.
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