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Volume 16 . Issue 72
Four men armed with crowbar and iron rod robbed a dairy store in Onehunga on Wednesday, November 29 taking cigarettes, cash and goods from the store.
It was 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday and the Arthur Street dairy had just opened its shutters when four men wearing hoodies, with covered face ran into the store threating the two shop attendants.
CCTV footage released by the shopkeeper shows three men climbing on to the cash counter and taking cigarettes and cash from the till. One of them was holding four feet long iron rod that came out of the counter and threatened the owner Khatija Chhiboo chasing her out of the store.
The robbers were prepared with a big bucket to carry the robbed good and cigarettes with them.
The fourth robber holding a crowbar smashed one of the counters inside.
“When the door buzzer rang, I thought it was any other customer only to realize a moment later that her shop was being robbed seeing a well-built man aggressively holding a crowbar in his hand,” Ms Khatija Chhiboo said.
Although no one was injured, the owner was traumatised by the incident.
Ms Chhiboo has owned the store for the last 21 years, but they have become victims of robberies a few times in the last five years.
As soon as the robbers took off from the store, Ms Chhiboo rang 111 and also alerted the neighbours by shouting ‘help help’.
The owner of the store released the CCTV footage of the robbery to the media and the police so that it can help the public identify the offenders and get them arrested.
This is the third robbery in last four days that the community has faced. On Monday morning, November 27 a Hamilton dairy owner injured and lost his right eye trying to defend a robbery attempt at his store.
A couple was severely beaten on the same night in Papakura leaving them with bruised face, eyes and injured ribs.
Four men armed with crowbar and iron rod robbed a dairy store in Onehunga on Wednesday, November 29 taking cigarettes, cash and goods from the store.
It was 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday and the Arthur Street dairy had just opened its shutters when four men wearing hoodies, with covered face ran into the...
Four men armed with crowbar and iron rod robbed a dairy store in Onehunga on Wednesday, November 29 taking cigarettes, cash and goods from the store.
It was 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday and the Arthur Street dairy had just opened its shutters when four men wearing hoodies, with covered face ran into the store threating the two shop attendants.
CCTV footage released by the shopkeeper shows three men climbing on to the cash counter and taking cigarettes and cash from the till. One of them was holding four feet long iron rod that came out of the counter and threatened the owner Khatija Chhiboo chasing her out of the store.
The robbers were prepared with a big bucket to carry the robbed good and cigarettes with them.
The fourth robber holding a crowbar smashed one of the counters inside.
“When the door buzzer rang, I thought it was any other customer only to realize a moment later that her shop was being robbed seeing a well-built man aggressively holding a crowbar in his hand,” Ms Khatija Chhiboo said.
Although no one was injured, the owner was traumatised by the incident.
Ms Chhiboo has owned the store for the last 21 years, but they have become victims of robberies a few times in the last five years.
As soon as the robbers took off from the store, Ms Chhiboo rang 111 and also alerted the neighbours by shouting ‘help help’.
The owner of the store released the CCTV footage of the robbery to the media and the police so that it can help the public identify the offenders and get them arrested.
This is the third robbery in last four days that the community has faced. On Monday morning, November 27 a Hamilton dairy owner injured and lost his right eye trying to defend a robbery attempt at his store.
A couple was severely beaten on the same night in Papakura leaving them with bruised face, eyes and injured ribs.
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