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Armed robbery suspects arrested at post office | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
Police have arrested three suspects at the scene of an armed raid on a post office in Birmingham. | |
Officers arrived at the branch in the Moseley district of the city at about 8.40am on Wednesday while the men, reportedly armed with machetes, were inside. | |
A male staff member was stabbed several times in the leg during the incident but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. | |
Witnesses described how several officers equipped with riot shields barricaded a front door and side entrance to seal off the shop. | |
Leigh Wallis, who lives opposite the shop, saw three men being taken out of the building wearing handcuffs and led to waiting police vans. | |
He said: “It was just before 9am and my son was looking out the window saying ‘what’s going on?’. There was an ambulance and a guy with a bloodied leg sat on the pavement. I looked across and the police had barricaded the doors. | |
“Then after about 10 minutes they started bringing these guys out in handcuffs, one by one.” | |
A police spokesman said: “Police have arrested three men reportedly armed with machetes as they tried to rob a post office in Moseley this morning.” | |
Ch Insp Julian Harper said: “We’re asking people to come forward if they saw anything suspicious in the area around that time to give us a call on 101 with any information.” | |
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