Two 1,500-year-old terracotta Vishnustatues bound for an exhibition in Paris were stolen at the Zia International Airport in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Saturday, local media reported Monday.
Named "Vishnu" and "Bust of Vishnu", the statues are from Guptaera of the seventh century. Since being discovered in a dig in Bangladesh's northwestern district of Bogra, they had been kept at the country's National Museum.
Their insurance value to talled 45,000 euros (about 66,150 U.S. dollars), local newspaper The Daily Star quoted sources at the cultural ministry as saying Monday.
Bangladesh government was sending the statues along with 143 other artifacts to Paris under a deed signed with France. In the first phase, it sent 42 relics on Dec. 1.
The civil aviation authorities formed a five-member investigation committee Sunday to search for those responsible for the heist.
Source: Xinhua
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