Thieves steal 40-tonne locomotives

Russian thieves have made off with two 40-tonne locomotives from a museum in the icy north of the country.

The locomotives were used to pull the trains that ferried materials to construct Josef Stalin's prison camps in the Siberian Gulag. For 50 years they had been preserved at the Permafrost museum in the town of Igarka and had been on display since Stalin died in 1953 and Gulag-building came to an end.