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Clerk fights thug with knife second robber comes in with gun
CCTV:Liverpool,England:October 08.A Yemeni shopkeeper was forced to run for cover after a gunman burst into his Liverpool shop.
It was the third violent attack on Merseyside convenience stores and newsagents in the last week.
Seemingly unconcerned about members of the public walking in and disturbing them they spent some 30 seconds looking for valuables before escaping with cash from the til More..l and phone cards.
Today the 45-year-old owner of Cardigan Street News, who asked not to be named, said: “My cousin was in the shop at the time.
“These people just walked in in broad daylight. It was 3pm, the time when kids are finishing school and people would have been about but that didn’t bother them.
“And then they just walked away afterwards. They must be local because they knew how to get away and didn’t have a car.”
It is the second time in the past two years the shop has been targeted.
Shocking pictures, captured by cameras in the Wavertree shop, show two thugs robbing Cardigan Street News at just before 3pm last Thursday.
The shop assistant managed to scare off the first hooded crook, only for him to come back seconds later with an accomplice armed with a gun wrapped in a black binbag.
Fearing for his life the 31-year-old shopkeeper fled to safety through the back of the store while the pair rifled behind the counter
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