Staff Reporter
Police in Bangladesh are searching for two statues of the Hindu god Vishnu which were stolen from Dhaka airport.
The statues were to be flown to Paris with other artefacts for an art exhibition at the Guimet Museum when they went missing on Saturday night. Dhaka police say they are questioning 12 people they have detained in connection with the theft. The statues, valued at about $65,000, were among a number of artefacts sent to France by the Bangladesh government.
“These are masterpieces and very valuable to our cultural heritage,” Shamsuzzaman Khan, a former head of the Bangladesh National Museum, told the Associated Press news agency. [Read more]