New Zealand / Regional

Armed bank robbery in Te Awamutu

21:15 pm on 20 January 2016

Police are looking for a man who robbed the ASB bank in Te Awamutu with a sawn-off shotgun.

The police released this image in relation to the armed robbery in Te Awamutu. Photo: SUPPLIED / NZ Police

They said the man pointed the gun at a staff member and demanded cash about 4pm.

He took off with an unknown amount of money, down an alleyway towards the Countdown supermarket.

The man was described as a stocky Maori or Pacific Island man wearing a grey hoodie top, dark long pants and sandshoes and carrying a dark back-pack style school bag.