Hair worth £10,000 stolen from temple

VISHAKHAPATNAM: Unidentified people stole 10 bags of 'special grade' human hair worth £10,000 from Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple at Simhachalam in Andhra Pradesh. Preliminary probe suggested the role of insiders, said DCP G Ram Gopal Naik. Thousands of devotees visit the temple every day and offer their hair to the deity. The staff then collects the hair and segregates them as per length and quality, and later, auction it. A temple official said around 15 bags were stored in a room near the centre of which 10 bags were missing. The thieves entered the store room from the terrace, using a rope.