Nashik: Unidentified persons broke into a shop here and decamped with Rs 4 lakh cash and 50 boxes of costly cigarettes worth about Rs 30 lakh, police said today.

The thieves apparently arrived in a tempo and broke open the shutter of ITC's distributor shop in Malegaon locality yesterday, Panchvati police station in-charge Shantaram Avasare said.