SUBANG JAYA, MALAYSIA: A group of robbers carted off a 20kg safe containing RM20,000 worth of jewellery after failing to break it open at a house in USJ 11 here.

They also took two laptops, a cellphone, passports and RM1,000 cash.

The robbery occurred at 2.15pm while the owner and his wife were out while their three children aged between eight and 18, and two elderly relatives were upstairs resting.

The eldest boy said he went downstairs when he heard noises and was shocked to see three masked men with knives ransacking the house.

"When they saw me, one of them threatened me and told me to keep quiet. Everyone was then brought downstairs," he said when met yesterday.

After tying up the victims, the robbers proceeded to the master bedroom and tried in vain to crack the safe.

"They threatened us, forcing us to tell them the combination numbers but I told them only my father knew it," the boy said.

Finally, the robbers gave up and took the safe with them, he said.

The victims then freed themselves and called for help.

The mother, who did not want to be named, said that an hour before the robbery took place, a suspicious-looking man came to the house asking for donations, supposedly for an environmental fund.

"And even after we gave him a donation, he lingered outside our home," she said.

The father later made a police report at USJ 8 police station.

Police are investigating the case.

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