Highway robbers sought in Russia

Police in central Russia were searching for suspects accused of stealing more than US$1 million in cash in a highway robbery - one of the country's biggest armed robberies in years.

Two bank employees told authorities that assailants with automatic rifles blocked their car on a highway in Tula province south of Moscow and stole about 43 million roubles in cash at gunpoint.

The victims said two of the seven attackers had posed as traffic police.