Cash-in-transit van raided in Antrim

Police in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, are appealing for information following the armed robbery of a cash-in-transit van earlier…

Police in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, are appealing for information following the armed robbery of a cash-in-transit van earlier today.

Shortly before 4.45pm two men, one armed with a knife, attacked a security guard and outside the B&Q shopping centre on Mill Road.

The men then made off with a cash box containing a “substantial amount of cash”.

The security guard was left shaken but uninjured physically by the attack.

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Anyone with information is asked to contact police.