17/05/2013

Two Arrested In Connection With Supermarket Robbery

Garda have arrested two men in connection with an armed robbery at a Lidl supermarket in Dublin on Thursday night.

Staff at the store on Grange Road in Rathfarnham were threatened by three men armed with a baseball bat and a handgun.

The escaped with a sum of cash. No-one was injured during the robbery.

A short time after the robbery a 23-year-old and 33-year-old man was arrested and taken to Tallaght Garda Station.

Money and a handgun were also recovered.

(MH)


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