The two escaped in a blue BMW which they abandoned a few blocks away for a second getaway car.
British media including the BBC and the The Times and The Daily Telegraph newspapers say the theft was Britain's biggest jewel heist, after a 2003 robbery that cost the same store 23 million pounds.
Police could not immediately confirm the reports.
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