A gunman robbed jewelry worth about 15 million euros (16 million U.S. dollars) in the French Riviera town of Cannes Wednesday morning, local media reported.

According to the news channel BFMTV, the gunman wearing a pair of sunglasses entered Harry Winston luxury jewellery shop on the city's prominent road of Croisette Promenade.

The man disguised himself as a customer before pulling out a pistol and a grenade, and looted 26 diamond jewelry sets, whose value was estimated at about 15 million euros, the report said.

No casualties have been reported.

But the man, not identified yet, is still at large, according to the report. Endit

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