GUNMEN stole cigarettes worth almost half a million pounds from a Walkersteel complex on Blackamoor Road, Blackburn.
The gang fled after tying up two security guards.
But police were baffled when the three robbers' loaded lorry was found intact less than a mile away at Ewood.
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