4 on the run as gold stolen from armored truck

French police said they are hunting for four men suspected of stealing gold dust worth an estimated $1.6 million from an armored truck on Monday before setting cars ablaze near a major highway and fleeing.

The suspects, operating in multiple cars, surrounded the armored truck and forced it off the A6 highway between Paris and Lyon, a national gendarme service spokesman and a judicial official said.

They then seized the gold, locked the two delivery men in the back of the truck, and set one of their own cars on fire before fleeing, according to the spokesman.