NSW:Armed robbers escape on bicycles

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2011
NSW:Armed robbers escape on bicycles

It seems the rising cost of petrol is getting to criminals .. with three men who robbed
a liquor store in Sydney's southwest escaping on bicycles.

Police say a masked man entered the Minto premises about eight o'clock (AEST) last
night .. holding a knife to the throat of a male employee.

He threw a back pack to a witness in the store demanding he fill it with cigarettes
and cash from the till.

The man grabbed the bag and ran from the store .. where he rode away with with two
other males waiting outside.

No one was injured during the incident.

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KEYWORD: BICYCLES (SYDNEY)

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