dramatic news from Chile
A robber was met by a chorus of laughter when his raid on a school was mistaken for a play rehearsal. Parents, teachers and pupils were in the school in Providencia when a man entered and shouted: "This is a robbery!". By a strange coincidence, students at the school had just been rehearsing a play which opened with exactly the same words. Eventually people understood what was going on and the robber took the school's registration money and ran off. However, he ran towards the local police station and was arrested by officers on their way to investigate the incident. Meanwhile, in Moscow a man stole a Nissan Primera from a garage repair shop, having watched mechanics doing a paint job on the car and then leave the keys in the ignition. Unfortunately he was unaware that the car also needed new brakes fitted, and witnesses watched him sail through a set of traffic lights and smash into another car a short distance down the road.