TOKYO: A team of three robbers stole suitcases holding US$2.7 million in cash on a busy street in central Tokyo, police and media said on Friday (Jan 30), a rare crime in the Japanese metropolis that prides itself on safety. She declined to give further details of the case, but local media said the victims were a group of five Chinese and Japanese nationals who were trying to place suitcases containing some 420 million yen (US$2.7 million) in a vehicle. Fuji Television said the victims told investigators that the cash was being delivered to currency exchange stations. Separately, a man with 190 million yen in cash was also attacked with pepper spray by a group of three men in the early hours of Friday morning at a parking garage at Tokyo's Haneda airport, local media said. Police were investigating the link between the two attacks, broadcaster TBS said.