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A store worker was injured in one of two aggravated robberies and multiple burglaries in Invercargill in the early hours of this morning.
Police are calling on the public for information after the incidents, which are likely to be linked.
At 2.30am on Monday, police responded to a report of two people assaulting a store worker and demanding cash at a business on Dee Street.
The worker was not seriously injured, but was shaken. The two perpetrators fled in a vehicle, but Detective Inspector Stu Harvey said that was not the end of this crime spree.
"An attempted burglary and two burglaries were subsequently reported at three further premises, on Windsor Street, Elles Road and Yarrow Street," he said.
"Then, about 4.20am, police received a report that two people had entered a Tay Street premises and demanded cash and items.
"Fortunately, no one was hurt during the incident."
Harvey said police were making enquiries into each incident, "and at this stage our information suggests they are linked".
He said two vehicles were seen in the vicinity of the incidents.
"One of them, a red Toyota Vitz, has been involved in the offending. Police have recovered this vehicle, which was stolen the previous day.
"The other vehicle is described as a dark-coloured car," he said.
Harvey said police would like to speak to anyone who saw vehicles fitting these descriptions between 1am and 5am.
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