A group of armed robbers escaped with 21 trays of gold in a brazen daylight heist at a jewellery store along Jalan Tun Sambanthan in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

Total losses from the incident that unfolded within minutes are estimated at a staggering RM9.7 million.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Fadil Marsus said that in the 11am incident, four men...