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Three men wearing balaclavas and armed with a shotgun attempted to rob a New Zealand Post Shop in the Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie this afternoon, according to a witness.
A man, who only wanted to be known as Walt, was sitting outside the shop in a parked car when he saw a man in the bank with a bag in one hand and a shot gun in the other, he said.
There were quite a few people in the shop at the time and they were down on the ground, he said.
A local resident, who did not want to be named, said three young men with balaclavas attempted to rob the shop but had run away.
Wellington police spokeswoman Kaye Calder told NZPA police were at scene but no further details were available.
- NZPA
