Article: Vic: Shop assistant foils armed robbery with iron bar


AAP General News (Australia)
07-24-2000
Vic: Shop assistant foils armed robbery with iron bar

A service station attendant in Melbourne's west scared off two gun-wielding bandits
early this morning by brandishing an iron bar and then throwing it at their getaway car.

Police say the two masked men entered the service station shop in Sunshine about 1 am
(AEST), pulled out their handguns and demanded cash from the attendant.

But the 24-year-old attendant refused and instead threatened the ...

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