16/12/2014

Police In Cookstown Appeal For Witnesses To Machete Robbery

Police are appealing for witnesses to an armed robbery in a pound shop in Cookstown.

According to police a man armed with a machete threatened staff at the shop in the retail park on Orritor Road at about 19:30 on Monday.

He escaped with an undisclosed sum of money.

No one was injured in the robbery.

(MH/CD)

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