Boy hurt in violent robbery
PA Auckland A young boy is lying in- i jured in Middlemore hospital, Auckland, after I being shot with a shotgun ; by one of three masked robbers at a ManureWa ; post office last evening. ; The robbers burst into 1 the Churchill Avenue post I office about 8 p.m. One of I them fired the shotgun, and the blast caught the i boy in the arm. None of the six other i
people in the post office were injured. A sum of money was taken, believed .to be about $lOOO. The men left the area in a car which was found abandoned not <far from the scene. They were seen, to get into a white sta-tion-waggon and drive off., The injured boy’s condition was described as “satisfactory” last evening- Mv
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Press, 18 October 1980, Page 6
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