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BREAKING NEWS: Hunt for robbers as shop staff threatened at gunpoint
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A PAIR of robbers, one armed with a gun, have held up a Doncaster convenience store.
Two men wearing balaclavas and brandishing a pistol and a crow bar burst into the Spar in Marlowe Road, Barnby Dun, threatening staff.
The duo fled with around £200 in cash and sped off in a silver Ford Focus, registration PE58 YKW. The number plates had been stolen from a Citroen vehicle in Thorne hours before the raid.
The robbery happened at about 10.10pm last night.
Det Insp Dave Mayfield said: “Thankfully no one was physically harmed, however the staff members were extremely frightened and upset by the incident.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police on 101, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111, quoting incident number of 1,188 of February 19.
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