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Police are hunting a knife-wielding robber who held up a pharmacy in the Coromandel town of Thames yesterday.
The offender forced staff at the Total Health Pharmacy on Pollen Street to lie face down on the floor as he rifled the till and helped himself to drugs before making off.
"The staff are understandably quite shaken by their ordeal," Detective Sergeant Steve Honiss, of Thames CIB, said.
The man was described as in his mid-20s, with an olive complexion, dark hair, of medium height with medium to solid build.
He was wearing black trousers, black shoes, black hooded sweatshirt, a white beanie and had his face covered with a black scarf.
Police appealed to anyone who saw the man entering or leaving the pharmacy or standing outside the Thames National Bank branch on Pollen St to contact them.
- NZPA
