MARANG, MALAYSIA: You just never know what a burglar will steal from your house: cash, jewellery and maybe a bra or two!

That was exactly what the culprit, or culprits, took when they broke into the house of a 49-year-old civil servant and his wife on Friday in Kampung Batu 12, here.

They stole RM1,500, RM10,000 worth of jewellery and a bra.

The man had left home for a seminar in Kuala Lumpur while his wife was away visiting her family in Dungun.

State Criminal Investigation Department deputy chief Superintendent Khairi Ahrasa said the civil servant was returning home on Saturday evening when he received a call from a neighbour informing him about the break-in.

He said when the man returned home, he found the front door had been forced open and his house ransacked. The man lodged a report at the Marang police station at 10pm, claiming two pearl necklaces, five gold rings, the cash and the bra was missing.