Burglars in US targeting Indian homes for gold!!!

Indian and South Asian homes have been targetted in a months-long series of daytime break-ins in Northern Virginia by burglars looking for gold that mirror a disturbing trend seen in other parts of the US as well.

'The burglars are discerning. They have taken 22-karat pieces but left behind sterling silver and well-crafted costume jewellery,' the Washington Post reported Saturday.

'They have sifted through floor-length gowns lovingly stored in closets and plucked every custom-made sari threaded with gold and worth thousands, disdaining saris worth only hundreds,' it said.

Officers in Fairfax and Loudoun counties on the outskirts of the national capital of Washington, and the homeowners themselves, have yet to figure out how the burglars so successfully identify houses with large gold caches. More...

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