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Violent robbery at north Okanagan convenience store

LUMBY – A north Okanagan store clerk was significantly traumatized in a Sunday morning robbery.

A knife-wielding man entered the Mac’s convenience store in Lumby at about 1:10 a.m. and demanded money from the cash register and safe.

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Police say the robber locked the outside door, held the knife to the female employee, and forced her to sit on the floor for about 10 minutes.

The man fled with cash, cigarettes and lottery tickets.

He is described as 5’6″ tall, medium build and wearing a dark, neoprene mask over his lower face and black and yellow mechanics gloves.

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