A bandit ran off with over $1 million worth of gold afterswiping a barrel from an armored truck in Midtown, police sourcessaid Friday.

The brazen theft went down on W. 48th St. near Fifth Ave.Thursday afternoon, when two guards on a Loomis Internationaltruck making a pick-up in the Diamond District noticed that onefive-gallon drum of gold flakes - part of a larger shipmentheaded to Canada - was missing.

The 86-pound tin of precious metals, valued at around$1,565,000, was part of a delivery meant to end up in Ontariowith a company called Asahi Refining, sources said.

The truck's surveillance cameras caught a suspect lifting acontainer and sprinting off east on 48th St, sources said.

The truck had started its day picking up a load on W. 47th St.near 6th Ave, before making the stop on W. 48th St.

Four 55-gallon pails of silver and four other five-galloncontainers of gold were untouched

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