An executive of a jewelry shop on Monday was robbed of his bag, which contained some 500 pieces of jewelry worth 100 million yen, by three men on a street in Osaka, police said. Takashi Kinoshita, a 45-year-old executive at Kinpodo, was hit by a car from behind when he was walking on the street pulling the bag, which had wheels on it. After getting out of the car, a man seized the bag and another man sprayed Kinoshita with an extinguishing agent, according to police.

The three robbers, all of whom wore masks, got away in a white van, police said. Kinoshita, who was to bring the jewelry to a customer in Tokyo, broke some rib bones.